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anneal visits td her grandmother, who always 
had family prayers, at which she used to 
assist, with her eyes just appearing above the 
table. On one occasion the servants were 
rather slow in making their appearance, so 
when they had come, and were decorously- 
seated in silence, she lifted up her voice and 
reproved them : ** You are all very late, 
womans.” 
until after two summers spent at Dieppe, 
where the crowds of people we knew, and 
the shoals of children coming and going all 
day, soon got her out of it. 
Before that 1 have been holding her hand 
when on the way to see people who had 
called and asked to see her, and it used to 
shake with terror. 
l ’I ASKED HER WHEN THE DANCE WAS FINISHED HOW SHE GOT ON. * OH, PRETTY WELL, BUT THE 
HOY COULDN’T GO FAST. I THINK HIS TROUSERS WERE BUTTONED SO HIGH THEY STOPPED 
ms breathing.’” 
Tt was at the same function, on another 
occasion, that a member of the family 
coughed, and the small voice immediately 
was heard saying, “ You've got a cough, 
ma’am;’ No notice was taken, but a minute 
after again a muffled cough was heard, and 
instantly the voice remarked, “ Your cough 
again, ma’am ! 51 
At this age her shyness amounted almost 
to a disease, and was not completely cured 
As she said herself later in life, when talking 
it over. “ How would you like it now, when 
\'Ou enter a room, for someone to say. ‘ Oh. 
there’s the baby,’ and then every eye in that 
room to glare upon you in solemn silence ? ” 
At Dieppe she used to take a great delight 
in the “ Bals des Enfants,” held on Wednesday 
afternoons. They’ used to dance a very 
pretty dance called “ The Babies’ Polka,” 
and when Marjorie had not got a partner 
