E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI : RUNAWAY
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI : RUNAWAY”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Daphne, Uncle Harold and Bloomsbury.

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ And I can’t leave you here alone.”
“Yes, you can,” said Doris, eagerly. “I’ll play at being a mouse—not a dor one. I’ll be as good as anything. You go, my Daffy-down-dilly, my lovally lily, and get the boxes. Only go now, so as you get back before dark.”
And Daphne went, though with some misgivings. The trains were tiresome, the hour late, and the soft summer twilight was thick in the streets, where already the lamps were lighted, when the cabman, staggering under the biggest of the boxes, went before Daphne up the stairs to the trap door. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ Daphne asked, through her fingers.
“Well, if you must have it,” said Aunt Emily, “we don’t think your influence is good for the child.”
“And why cheap?” the girl asked, dropping her hands abruptly.
“Why, she wasn’t crying after all,” said Uncle Harold, visibly disappointed.
“Because your Uncle Hamley finds that you aren’t such an heiress as you made out, that’s why,” said Aunt Emily, “if you insist on knowing all about everything. Sixty pounds a year is all there’ll be. And for us to keep you at all is only charity. That’s why, miss.” Aunt Emily’s face burned redly. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ There are side streets, and back streets, and odd criss-cross streets in Bloomsbury where second-hand furniture may be bought. It takes a long time to buy. A table, two chairs, a kettle—“and oh, Daffy, a looking-glass to do your golden hair in,”—two cups and saucers, a teapot, two jugs—“the ones like Indian corn – yes, they are pretty, Daff—I don’t care what you say—just peeping out of the green leaves lovely”—four towels, two tablecloths, blankets, four sheets, four pillow-cases, a jug and basin, a chest of drawers.
“Oh, dear,” said Daphne, “I had no idea things cost so much!” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ And she had the wit to see that smart, new, showy clothes would be a better disguise than any attempt at frowsy shabbiness. Besides, everyone was wearing white jackets that year; and so far, she and Doris had not had white jackets.
In Oxford Street they had a bun and milk lunch-breakfast, and Daphne there asked the girl who waited on them where Bloomsbury was. Delighted to find that some instinct or chance had led her to the very district of which her aunt least approved, she began to look among its streets and squares for a home for herself and the Dormouse. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ Only to help Daphne to carry down her luggage and Doris’s—to put up the Carter Paterson card, and give the boxes to the carrier when he passed at eight in the morning. This she did.
“How was I to know?” she defended herself to her mistress later. “Of course we knew there’d been a rumpus, and Miss Carmichael asked me to send off the boxes first thing; so of course I did. How did she get them down? I helped her get them down. Leave at once? Only too glad to get out of a house like this where they beats little children till young ladies are driven to run away to protect the little dears. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ Destiny spared her the disillusionment. A big house, very newly painted, its door kept open by a brick, wooed her eyes with its fresh clean paint and an air of having just been thoroughly done up. A very large board was on its front. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VI … (1909)

“ She noted everything, from the bundles stowed in pigeon-holes at the back of the shop to the pink face of the young Jew who wrote out her ticket. “Can’t give you more than twenty quid,” he said to the delighted amazement of Daphne, who had not hoped for more than five. “Oh, the naughty Colombe,” she told herself ”

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