Excerpt: ... books. Does it, after all, matter how-if only we get it right? . . . There's a tradition-what, I believe, you call an 'atmosphere'-and you are proud of it and very jealous." "If you see all this," said Lady Caroline, mollified, "our business should be easier, with a little common sense on your part." "And it knits you," pursued Ruth, "into a sort of family conspiracy- the womenkind especially-like bees in a hive. The head of the family is the queen bee, and you respect him amazingly; but all the same you keep ...
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Excerpt: ... books. Does it, after all, matter how-if only we get it right? . . . There's a tradition-what, I believe, you call an 'atmosphere'-and you are proud of it and very jealous." "If you see all this," said Lady Caroline, mollified, "our business should be easier, with a little common sense on your part." "And it knits you," pursued Ruth, "into a sort of family conspiracy- the womenkind especially-like bees in a hive. The head of the family is the queen bee, and you respect him amazingly; but all the same you keep your own judgment, and know when to thwart and when to disobey him, for his own and the family's good. I think you disobeyed Sir Oliver in coming here; or, at least, deceived him and came here without his knowledge." "I am not accustomed," said Lady Caroline, rising, "to direct my conduct upon my nephew's advice." "That, more or less, is what I was trying to say. Dear madam, let me warn you to do so, if you would manage his private affairs." They faced each other now, upon declared war. Lady Caroline's neck was suffused to a purplish red behind the ears. She gasped for speech. Before she found it there came a tapping on the door, and Diana Vyell entered. Chapter XIII. DIANA VYELL. "Have you not finished yet?" Miss Diana closed the door, glanced from one to the other, and laughed with a genial brutality. "Well, it's time I came. Dear mamma, you seem to be getting your feathers pulled." There was a byword among the Whig families at home (who, by intermarrying, had learned to gauge another's weaknesses), that "the Pett medal showed ill in reverse." Miss Diana had heard the saying. As a Vyell-the Vyells were, before all things, critical-she knew it to be just, as well as malicious; but as a dutiful daughter she ought to have remembered. As it was, her cool comment stung her mother to fury. The poor lady pointed a finger at Ruth, and spluttered (there is no more elegant word for the very inelegant exhibition), - "A strumpet! One that...
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