Every morning, her father gave her a casual kiss before leaving for work to which she always responded with 'goodbye father and it was a great relief for her to hear the carrier go down the road.
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bring my tea into the drawing room....Hasn't the paper come yet? Mother go and check if my papers out there _ and bring me my glasses
In the evening when he came home she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice from the hall.
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Kezia ...... if you are a good girl you can come down and ta ke off fathers boots
Mother would call her . Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs , more slowly still across the hall and push open the drawing room door .
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By the time he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying the little girl.
Well ,Kezia hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside ,have you been a good girl today
I d-d-don't know ,father
You d-d-don't know ? if you stutter like that mother will have to take you to the doctor
You d-d-don't know ? if you stutter like that mother will have to take you to the doctor
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's the matter ?What are you looking so wretched about ?Mother ,i wish you taught this child not to appear on the brink of suicide.....Here ,Kezia ,carry my teacup back to the table.
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Good bye, father.
On Sunday afternoons Grandmother sent her down to have a nice talk with Father and Mother but the little girl always found Mother reading and Father stretched out on the sofa, his handkerchief on his face, his feet on one of the best cushions, sleeping soundly and snoring.She sat on a stool and gravely watched him until he woke and stretched, and asked the time - then looked at her. Don't stare so Kezia , You like a little brown owl .One day she was kept indoors with a cold , her grandmother, told her that father's birthday was next week, and suggested she would make him a pin-cushion for a gift out of a beautiful piece of yellow silk