The anxiety I underwent, in the interval which necessarily elapsed
before a reply could be received to her letter to Mr. Murdstone, was
extreme; but I made an endeavour to suppress it, and to be as agreeable
as I could in a quiet way, both to my aunt and Mr. Dick. The latter and I
would have gone out to fly the great kite; but that I had still no
other clothes than the anything but ornamental garments with which I had
been decorated on the buy anabolics steroids first day, and which confined me to the house,
except for an hour after dark, when my aunt, for my health's sake,
paraded me up and down on the cliff outside, before going to bed. At
length the reply from Mr. Murdstone came, and my aunt informed me, to my
infinite terror, that he was coming to speak to her herself on the next
day. On the next day, still bundled up in my curious habiliments, I
sat counting the time, flushed and heated by the conflict of sinking
hopes and rising fears within me; and waiting to be startled by the
sight of the gloomy face, whose non-arrival startled me every minute.
MY aunt was a little more imperious and stern than usual, but I
observed no other token of her preparing herself to receive the visitor
so much dreaded by me. She sat at work in the window, and I sat by,
with my thoughts running astray on all possible and impossible results
of Mr. Murdstone's visit, until pretty late in the afternoon. Our
dinner had been indefinitely postponed; but it was growing so late, that
my aunt had ordered it to be got ready, when she gave a sudden alarm of
donkeys, and to my consternation and amazement, I beheld Miss
Murdstone, on a side-saddle, ride deliberately over the sacred buy anabolics steroids piece of
green, and stop in front of the house, looking about her.
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