[The Tapestry Room by Mrs. Molesworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tapestry Room CHAPTER VII 3/26
The words wouldn't come, and if they did, it would be no use.
You're older than Mademoiselle Jeanne, Monsieur Hugh, and it's different for her.
But it doesn't matter--the days bring their own pleasures and interests, which the moonlight wouldn't suit. You wouldn't have cared for a dinner like what you have every day when you were listening to the song of the swan ?" "No, certainly not," said Hugh.
"I see you do understand, Marcelline, better than anybody.
It must be as I said; there must be two of me, and two of Jeanne, and two of you, and----" "And two of everything," said Marcelline; "and the great thing is to keep each of the twos in its right place." She smiled now, right out, and was turning away with the light in her hand, when Hugh called after her, "_Will_ the moonlight nights come again soon, Marcelline? Do tell me. I'm sure you know." "Have a little patience," said the old nurse, "you shall be told.
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