Consequences

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E. M. Delafield. Consequences

Book I

I. The Game of Consequences

II. School

III. Queenie Torrance

IV. Holidays

V. Other People

VI. The End of an Era

VII. London Season

VIII. Goldstein and Queenie

IX. Scotland

X. Noel

XI. Engagement of Marriage

XII. Christmas Pantomime

XIII. Decision

XIV. Barbara

XV. Diamond Jubilee

XVI. Mother Gertrude

XVII. Lawn-Tennis

XVIII. Crisis

Book II

XIX. Belgium

XX. Aftermath

XXI. Father Farrell

XXII. Rome

XXIII. N.W

XXIV. All of Them

XXV. Violet

XXVI. August

XXVII. The Embezzlement

XXVIII. Cedric

XXIX. Forgiveness

XXX. Epitaph

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The firelight flickered on the nursery wall, and the children sat round the table, learning the new game which the nursery-maid said they would like ever so, directly they understood it.

"I understand it already," said Alex, the eldest, tossing her head proudly. "Look, Barbara, you fold the piece of paper like this, and then give it to Cedric, because he's next to you, and I give mine to you, and Emily gives hers to me. That's right, isn't it, Emily?"

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Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner was pleasant. Mademoiselle did not come in the afternoon, and Nurse generally went out and left Emily in charge. In the summer she took the children to sit in the Square garden – the Park on Sundays was not allowed – and in the winter they always walked as far as the Albert Memorial, for which Cedric entertained a great admiration.

Sunday was Lady Isabel's At Home day and the children, except during the season, always went down to the drawing-room after tea, Alex and Barbara in pale, rose-coloured frocks with innumerable frills at throat and wrists, and a small pad fastened under each skirt so that it might stand well out at the back. Cedric, like most other little boys of his age and standing, was forced to wear a Lord Fauntleroy suit, from which his cropped bullet head and spectacles emerged incongruously.

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