E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VIII : COUSIN
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VIII … (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — VIII : COUSIN”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Doris, Daphne and compact.

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

“ He carried Doris up the three steep flights and Daphne held her while he spread mattress and blankets on the spring lounge.
“You won’t mind being in the dark just for a few minutes, will you? I’ll be back in a jiffy,” he remarked, and his boots sounded on the stairs in loud and swift retreat.
It was a very big, dark, empty room, illumined faintly by the lamps from the street below, and by the yellow diffused light of great London. The cisterns made sudden gurglings, the boards creaked. Daphne sat on the lounge with the child’s head in her lap. ”

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

“ Don’t say we aren’t! I always know. Shall we make a compact to say what we like to each other, and not to be offended—and not to pretend to misunderstand—just for the sake of a cheap score off each other?”
“I like that,” Daphne told herself. “I do like that very much.” Aloud she said: “That’s a good compact, whether we’re friends or not.”
“Oh, no, it isn’t.” He filled up her glass from the half-bottle of cheap red wine. “Unless people are going to be friends it’s no use their making compacts or anything. You know I don’t think it’s worth while being just acquainted with people. ”

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

“ Almost before she saw it she heard, and the door was open, its handle in her hand.
“Oh, here she is!” cried Doris’s little voice, and Doris’s arms and legs were curled round her sister. “Oh, Daffy, I thought you was never coming and——”
“It’s all right,” said Daphne to the cabman. “Thank you a thousand times. I hope if ever you’re in trouble someone will be as kind to you as you’ve been to me. Good night.” She got a hand free from Doris and held it out. ”

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

“ Daphne was relieved by this last speech. As long as this strange, wild, friendly boy was in love with another girl—she did not like the thought that this had answered. It wasn’t to be supposed that everyone one met would fall in love with one at first sight like—— Besides, this was a London hansom, not a French chestnut tree.
“But,” she went on, “what’s made quickly is broken quickly, isn’t it? If you make friends in such a hurry, does it last?” ”

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

“ Daphne could not but feel that this was perhaps a little too Bohemian, even for her.
“Do let’s go,” said Doris, and added with unerring instinct, “Aunt Emily would so hate us to.”
The other two laughed.
“Come,” said the nice boy. “The man can look out for my things, if they come, which I don’t think they ever wil. We’ll take a hansom, because Doris is tired, and we’ll go to a nice restaurant where they speak French, and you can fancy you’re in Paris.” ”

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

“ Why do you suppose people waste all the time they do in preliminaries instead of swearing friendship the minute they set eyes on each other? It’s just because they aren’t sure, for quite a long time, that the other one’s the right sort. ”

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“ Daphne’s voice broke on what was almost a sob. “You see, we’ve only got each other; we haven’t any friends in England. And I haven’t got any money to pay detectives, like people do in books. Let’s go now, will you?”
Fingering the half-sovereign, and greatly affected by Daphne’s distress, the cabman stumped down the stairs. She followed. ”

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

“ Aunt Emily fingered the letter, looked at the foreign stamp.
“Jane,” she said, “I wish you would go up to my room and bring me the blue envelope that’s lying about somewhere, or else in the wardrobe.”
And when Jane was gone, “I suppose I ought to read it,” she said, screening her curiosity with the imperative; “it may throw some light on the girl’s extraordinary conduct.”
Uncle Harold suggested waiting a few days. “She may send an address, or go to Uncle Hamley.”
“I should open it now,” said Cousin Henrietta. “You’ll do it in the end, Emily. It’s no use making two bites of a cherry.” ”

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

“ We’re all planting ladders against the sky to gather the stars, except the people who’ve gathered all they want and the people who have burned their fingers and don’t want anything any more. And I shall tell you all my great and noble ambitions and all about the girl I’m in love with, and I’ll show you where to go for cold beef, and where not to go for bread, and why you must buy candles at Jones’s, and paraffin at Smith’s ”

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