E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Simpshall, Harold and coffin.

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ Once more the parlour seemed to be full merely of aunts and uncles.
“A hundred pounds to the person under whose roof I die,” said Mrs. Simpshall, as Ada, chin-tilted, came in, with rattling tea-things on a black iron tray. “What a pity nobody knew that!”
“Good gracious,” she almost screamed as the rusty gate creaked, “who’s this?”
“It’s them,” said Cousin Jane, bringing her merino nearer to the window.
“Them?” echoed Cousin Simpshall, “why the child’s all in white, and the girl’s in green!”
“She would do it. Said it would make the child dismal to wear black. She’s got no common decency.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ Uncle Harold giggled, and tasted sherry in little sips.
“They’re about there by now,” said Aunt Emily, “it’s only just up the road.”
“They go very slow, you know,” said Cousin Simpshall.
“Poor James,” said Uncle Harold. “I sometimes think he wasn’t quite right in the top story—to act the way he did.”
“What was it exactly?” Mrs. Simpshall asked, spreading her handkerchief on her black silk lap and laying her bitten slice of seed cake on it. “Being so long in India I forget these old family quarrels.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ Fortunately no one noticed her. People had a way of not noticing Cousin Jane.
“What’s the girl like?” asked Cousin Simpshall.
“Oh, I forgot you’d not seen her. A bold hard nature I should say. And flighty. Never shed a tear when I told her her poor father had passed away. Just pushed past me on the stairs and said she’d put the child to bed first and talk to me afterward.”
“I don’t think she’d be a nice girl to have in the house,” Uncle Harold said; “never cried at all, Emily tells me.”
“Oh, you’ll soon teach her better,” said Cousin Jane, and again nobody noticed her. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ I mean guineas each—you wouldn’t take less than that, Emily——”
“Not living as you do,” said Cousin Simpshall, suddenly pleasant with port.
“We could have that pony and trap, Harold,” said Aunt Emily, with an eye to Cousin Simpshall.
“And the double windows,” said Uncle Harold, with an eye to himself. “I’d as good as ordered them when James withdrew his money.”
“Ah!” whispered Aunt Emily behind her hand, “he’s never really got over that. After all these years, too. Dear Harold was always so sensitive.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ Her face was like a horse’s face, and she had large, gaunt, yellow hands and wrists like the legs of hens.
“It all depends whether she’s got a nincome,” said Uncle Harold, swallowing the last mouthful of seed cake, and pulling down his waistcoat with a jerk so that the crumbs which had lodged in its creases leaped suddenly out at the company, “if she’s got a nincome—” “The question is whether we could do with them living with us.”
“The child could go to school, surely,” said Cousin Simpshall, who had some thoughts of herself living with Aunt Emily.
“Two pounds a week—I mean guineas ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ He was such a fine-built man, they couldn’t get him round the turn of the stairs. Those old-fashioned houses were so inconvenient.”
“Just so,” said Uncle Harold. “They’ve got it in now. I always think those glass hearses a bit showy. I don’t see your wreath, Emily. Oh, yes—there it is; some of the flowers have got knocked off against the hearse door.”
“You remember,” said Cousin Henrietta, “that cottage where Batts lived—he got the shaking palsy and they took him to the Union—there was a panel made to slip out of the staircase to let the coffin through, a coffin hole, they called it. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — V : ORPHAN (1909)

“ Do you know, really, aunt, I think it will be better for us not to wear black. The things you bought for us don’t fit us in the least. Doris’s frock is down to her heels, and the band of my skirt would go round me twice and a bit over. ”

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