So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish , and playing brother to us girls , " saidsayBeth , strokingstrokethe rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch .
“ I AM so gladgladto seeseeyou , ” saidsaythe girl , who was in a state of spiritual starvation , and would have been glad to see the waiter if her cousin had permitted it .
“ It may well be , ” he saidsay, in his sudden lyrical manner , “ it may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colours that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet .
saidsayLucy , who had been further saddenedsaddenby the Signora ’s unexpected accent .
I saidsay, ‘ I thought you would come to that sooner or later .
She saidsayall a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing , forever and ever .
“ Take care you do n’t hurt your teeth , ” he saidsay, paternally .
“ There was more passingpassthan usual , ” I saidsay; “ but I was busybusyin the fields , and did not attend .
" I 've got to go home , " saidsayPhilip , at last .
CHAPTER 1 The Rassendylls -- With a Word on the Elphbergs “ I wonderwonderwhen in the world you ’re going to do anything , Rudolf ? ” saidsaymy brother ’s wife .
But Eliza Millward sayssayher father intends to call upon her soon , to offer some pastoral advice , which he fears she needs , as , though she is known to have entered the neighbourhood early last week , she did not make her appearance at church on Sunday ; and she — Eliza , that is — will beg to accompany him , and is sure she can succeed in wheedling something out of her — you know , Gilbert , she can do anything .