Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Name: The Little French Girl — Part 1. Chapter 5
Author: Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

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“The Little French Girl — Part 1. Chapter 5”, published in 1924, is a work by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. It explores elements such as Alix, Toppie and Rosemary.

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ Toppie was there when they got in. A fire had been lighted for tea in the drawing-room, a long room with roses on the chairs and sofas and a high wainscotting of dark woodwork, and above that blue paper with old-fashioned crayon portraits and large photographs from famous pictures. A tall grey figure stood at the further end, and Alix knew at once that it was Toppie who turned her head to look at her like that. She was helping Mrs. Bradley arrange flowers, Michaelmas daisies, oak leaves, and sprays of golden larch. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ But she would never have known this, just as she did not know, nor did they, that she was fonder of her boys than of Ruth and Rosemary. “But I believe that in this country everybody is fonder of sons,” thought Alix, marvelling at the reappearance of the strange cabbage cut into squares and recalling impressions of English literature where, despite romantic surfaces, it was apparent to the discerning eye that men always counted for more than women. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ One felt that the woods had grown up around it and that it preserved a tranquil personality of its own, unmoved by the haphazard accretions of a century.
“Oh, that's the Rectory; where Toppie lives,” said Ruth. “You can see the church spire just above the trees to the right. Pleasant, do you call it? I think it's rather dismal; so bare and square. It needs lots of creepers and shrubberies to make it cheerful; but old Mr. Westmacott doesn't like them.”
“Creepers would not be in the character of that house, I feel,” said Alix; “and they would hide the pretty colour of the brick. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ CHAPTER V She was not to escape Ruth and Rosemary for long. Already, at lunch, she felt that Giles, talking gravely with his mother of treaties and leagues and such dull matters, seemed to have relegated her to their category. Over the dining-room mantelpiece hung a portrait of the late Mr. Bradley; she knew it must be he from his likeness to Aunt Bella and Ruth and Rosemary, and Alix felt sure, as she looked up at his pink and yellow, his tweeds and watch-chain and good, shrewd eyes, that Mrs. Bradley's sons must always have interested her more than their father. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ She would be sorry for Percy Brown, she felt sure, if she were to see him confronting Toppie.
“It's very difficult to confess when one has done a mean thing,” Mrs. Bradley mused—and Alix almost had to laugh at hearing her, so impossible was it to imagine Mrs. Bradley involved in such a dilemma. “The cowardice and the meanness go together, don't they, and Percy is so young that they are not worse, really, than weakness and timidity. He may outgrow it.” ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ Captain Owen, with his charming smile, rejoined, “Oh, much better than that!”
Later on, when they were alone, Maman had remarked to her: “She is pretty; but nothing more. Elle est nulle, cette Toppie; très, très nulle.” But Mix had not agreed. Often she did not agree with Maman. The little photograph had not said much, but it had said something definite. “She is like someone in a tower.” So she tried to fix her feeling.
“Even in a tower one may oneself be insignificant,” said Maman, and to this Alix had replied: “Not if one is the tower oneself.” ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ It stood, with an air of serenity and detachment, half a mile away, a tall house of pale, eighteenth-century brick with a white door and white window-sills, a formal garden before it and a neat hedge dividing it from the road. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 1… (1924)

“ Bradley, smiling at her. “And without you, Toppie, I'd never have made the effort. Toppie thinks a room without flowers so sad. She made me come out with her and pick all these. It's astonishing, really, what one can still find in a November garden.”
“They look awfully nice,” said Giles.
“Well, to tell you the truth,” said Ruth—Alix had already noted of her that, on all occasions, she gave her opinion without being asked—“they look to me rather dingy and frost-bitten. ”

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