As the great lady drove away Jasmine had actually the audacity to blow
a kiss to her.
The neighbors at the opposite side of the street felt quite
scandalized, and said to themselves that surely the poor young ladies
had seen the last of Mrs. Ellsworthy, after such a piece of
impertinence. But the lady of Shortlands was really delighted.
"To think of my being here all these years, and never knowing those
charming creatures," she soliloquized. Just then she saw Miss
Martineau crossing the street, and she ordered her coachman to draw
up.
"I have been with them, dear Miss Martineau--they are delightful--so
fresh--and so--so pretty! They are coming to Shortlands to-morrow.
Good-bye--warm morning, is it not? Home, Tomlinson."
The girls had entered the little house, cheered by Mrs. Ellsworthy's
visit. Primrose, it is true, did not share her younger sisters'
enthusiasm, but even she was pleased, and owned to herself that Mrs.
Ellsworthy was a very different neighbor from the village folk.
Primrose's mind, however, was a good deal absorbed by what she had
discovered in her mother's little old-fashioned cabinet. A letter
directed to herself lay there unopened.
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