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The rest of the day was a nightmare, the sort of silly, jumbled () nightmare in which one impossible thing happens after another and you take them all for granted. What stood out most clearly in his mind was that he had been somehow cheated of his fair right. When you are accepted you kiss your girleverybody does, and he had been given no chance to kiss Beatrice at all.

It was Mrs. Carstairs who did the kissing, plenty of it. She kissed them both repeatedly and effusively (, ), dabbing (, ) at her eyes between- whiles with a lace-edged () handkerchief. Pah! If only she wouldn't use that beastly scent! How he loathed the stuffwhat was it called? He was sure someone had told him its name once, long ago....

Ah yes, the red-haired girl that he had taken up the river

That was all over. It was ages agonot quite three weeks ago, but before he had ever heard of Beatrice. And now he was as good as married....

As they entered the house, Elsie came running downstairs, cheerful as a magpie (). On being told the news she also insisted on kissing him. Well, her kisses were bearable; she was a good-humoured, healthy child, and quite affectionate, it seemed, for all her pert () ways. Not a bad little thing, no doubt, when you got to know her. Anyhow, she smelled of nothing worse than honest soap.

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"And what about your tenants () in the fishing cove (, )?" Henry asked him.

The question brought up Walter's one real disappointment. He had failed to discover in the district anyone from whom he could learn the almost extinct old Cornish language.

"I hoped to compare it with Welsh," he said. "They are so nearly allied. I persuaded Powys to try whether the people would respond to his beautiful Welsh songs, but they seemed to think the old tongue was something to be ashamed () of. One aged granny did admit that she had spoken Cornish as a child, but even she could remember only a few phrases. Yet they all talk English as if it were a foreign tongue to them. It is pitiful; they have lost their heritage."

"Well, that's nothing to fret over (), surely," said Henry. "You ought to be glad they've learned a civilized language at last. Even if they do murder it, that's better than talking some barbarous lingo ( , ) that nobody understands."

Walter did not take up the challenge; he had long ceased () to expect anyone to sympathize with his yearning () over dying speech forms. He changed the subject with a sigh.

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A girl was sitting by herself in a corner, the same corner in which she had been sitting an hour ago. His carelessly compassionate (, ) glance had already returned to her more than once. Not that anyone so fragile (), so passive and colourless, could be of any practical interest to him; but it was odd that nobody danced with her. She seemed to be a bit of a wallflower, poor thing.

Now he found himself gazing at her in astonishment (, ). It was not beauty that had caught his eyes. She was comely () enough: erect and slender, with delicate features and finely pencilled brows. When you came to look at her, she was even pretty in a quiet way. For a change, after so many glossy () ringlets (), he rather liked that soft, lustreless () hair, just dark enough to frame her face in shadow. But a young girl should not be thin and hollow-eyed.

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And then, the pert () answers of that spoiled sixteen-year-old! Not that you could blame the child herself overmuch. What chance had she to learn decent () ways in such a house? So pretty too, and didn't she know it! She would peep at you from under her lashes, laughing after some bit of sauciness (); and, try as you would, you could not keep from laughing back, however much annoyed you were. Then Beatrice would drift past like some unhappy ghost, with eyes that broke your heart and that never even saw you; and when you looked at Elsie again she was nothing but a giggling romp ( ). If the brat had been his daughter, he would have spanked () her, and soundly too, for making fun of her poor old deaf () governess () and calling her stepfather Jacko. Jacko!

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