Ethel Turner

Name: The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS
Author: Ethel Turner

The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

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“The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS”, published in 1895, is a work by Ethel Turner. It explores elements such as Meg, Nell and socks.

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ Poppet understood him a little—no one else. He was at perpetual enmity with his father, who had no patience with him at all. Esther excused him by saying he was at the hobbledehoy stage, and would grow up all right; but she was always too busy to help him to grow. Meg's hands were full with Pip; and Nell, after a try or two to win his confidence, had pronounced him a larrikin, undeserving of sisters at all. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ So Poppet undertook him. She was a faithful little soul, and in some strange way just fitted into him, despite his awkward angles.
Sometimes he would tell her things, and go to a great deal of trouble to do something she particularly wanted; but then again he would bully her unmercifully, and make her life not worth living.
"Why don't you play cricket, or do something, John?" Meg said, snipping off an end of cotton very energetically. "I hate to see a great boy like you sprawling on a sofa doing nothing." ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ Nell said. "Why, even Martha said, 'La, Miss Nell!' and held her head on one side with a pleased look for two minutes."
"But you're such a child, Nellie," objected Meg. "you look like playing at being grown up."
"Fifteen's very old, I think," said Miss Nell, walking up and down just for the simple pleasure of hearing the frou-frou of muslin frills near her shoes.
"Ah well, I do think I look nice with my hair done up, and you can't have it up with short frocks." "Then the moral is easy of deduction," said Meg drily. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ Meg said; "you are always in scrapes for something. Pip never got in half so many, and yet he wasn't a model boy. Will you promise me to try next week?"
There was a grunt from the sofa cushion that might be interpreted at will as negative or affirmative.
Nell came into the room, her hat swung over her arm.
"Get up, John," she said; "what a horrid boy you are! Look at your great muddy boots on the sofa! Meg, I don't know how you could sit there and see him. Why, if we sat down, we'd get our dresses all spoiled." ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ The golden hair had deepened, and was twisted up in the careful, careless way fashion dictated. The complexion was wonderfully pure and bright for Australia, and the eyes were just as dewy and soft and sweetly lashed as ever. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ She has lost her chubbiness, and developed abnormally long, thin legs and arms, a surprising capacity for mischief, and the tenderest little heart in the world.
So Meg's hands were fairly well filled for the afternoon, to keep these three young ones in check, darn the socks, and superintend kitchen arrangements, which meant Martha Tomlinson and the cook.
She had not bargained for the tussle with Nell too.
That young person was at a difficult age just now: too old—in her own eyes, at any rate—to romp with Bunty and Poppet ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — I. PICKING UP THREADS (1895)

“ This was an odd little characteristic of Essie's, and no amount of scolding and even shaking could break her of it. Innumerable times she had been found at this work of iniquity, dipping one leg after the other in any water-jugs she found on the floor. And did Martha, in washing floors, leave her bucket of dirty water one moment unguarded, Essie would creep up and pop in one little leg while she stood her ground with the other.
[Illustration: "'I'SE VELLY DOOD.'"]
Meg dried her, scolding hard all the time. ”

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