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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901

"The Three Brides"

Cecil spoke for him. "How very
provoking! What did you do to him, Rosamond?"
"I kept off the sand-flies! I can't say but I was glad of a little
rest, for I had been packing up for the whole family for ten days
past, with interludes of rushing out into the town; for whatever we
had not forgotten, the shops had not sent home! Oh! what a paradise
of quiet it was under the rocks at Filey--wasn't it, Julius?"
"We will go there again next time we have a chance," said Julius,
looking blissful.
"I would never go again to the same place," cried Cecil. "That's
not the way to acquire new ideas."
"We are too old to acquire new ideas, my dear," drawled Rosamond,
sleepily.
"What did you go to the Church Congress for!" asked Charlie.
"I hope Julius was awake by that time," said Frank.
"Not if we are to have all the new ideas tried on us," said Raymond,
dryly.
"I went to a Congress once!" exclaimed Cecil.
"Indeed!" said her husband, surprised.
"Yes. We thought we ought to encourage them. It was the Congress
of Sunday-school managers for our archdeaconry.


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