'
'Of course the boys deserted.'
'Which has not softened Smith, though it has made him tolerate Felix
in the choir. His voice is of very little use at present; but he is
such an influence, that we should be glad of him if he could not sing
a note, and he clings to it with all his heart. I believe music is
about the only pleasure he has, and it excites his mother too much to
have any at home. We have little Lance in the choir now, with a voice
like a thrush in a dewy morning.'
Mr. Audley acted on the port-wine prescription, to the horror and
dismay of Cherry, who only submitted with any shadow of philosophy on
being told that the more she cried the more necessary she rendered
it; but on the Saturday, Sister Constance suddenly knocked at Mr.
Audley's door. She had been talking the matter over with the
Superior; and the result was, that she had set off on a mission to
see for herself, and if she thought it expedient, to bring Geraldine
back with her. She had chosen Saturday as the time for seeing Wilmet,
and was prepared to overlook that the stairs were a Lodore of soap,
this being Sibby's cleaning day, while Wilmet kept guard over the
mother and the twins.
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