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and some more of them,
just before they sailed; and father took me there on Sunday to
luncheon; but there were so many people, and such a talk, and such a
bustle, that I hardly knew which was which. Aunt Jane and Aunt Ada
were a talking that it made my head turn round; but I saw how affected
Aunt Lilias is, and I knew that whenever they looked at me they said
‘poor child,’ and I always hate any one who does that! All I was
afraid of then was that father would let Aunt Jane and Aunt Ada come
and live with us; but this is ever so much worse.’

‘You have such a lot of aunts and uncles!’ said Maude, ‘and I have not
got anything but one old uncle.’

‘Uncles are all very well,’ said Dolores, said Maude. ‘There are the
two Miss Mohuns–‘

‘Oh, that’s beginning at the wrong end. Aunt Ada is the youngest of
them all, and she thinks she is a young lady still, and wears little
curls on her forehead, and a tennis pinafore, and makes her waist just
like a wasp. She and Aunt Jane live together at Rockquay, beca