The New review - v. 17,nos. 98-103 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . ,... IRew IRevtew. No. 98. -- JULY, 1897. WHAT MAISIE KNEW XVIII. THE child, however, was not destined to enjoy much of Sir Claude at the " ... more »thingumbob," which took for them a very different turn indeed. On the spot Mrs. Beale, with hilarity, had urged her to the course proposed ; but later, at the Exhibition, she withdrew this allowance, mentioning, as a result of second thoughts, that when a man was so sensitive such a communication might only make him worse. It would have been hard indeed for Sir Claude to be " worse," Maisie felt, as, in the gardens and the crowd, when the first dazzle had dropped, she looked for him in vain up and down. They had all their time, the couple, for frugal, wistful wandering: they had partaken together, at home, of the light, vague meal -- Maisie's name for it was a "jam-supper" -- to which they were reduced when Mr. Farange sought his pleasure abroad. It was abroad now, entirely, that Mr. Farange cultivated this philosophy, and it was the actual impression of his daughter, derived from his wife, that he had three days before joined a friend's yacht at Cowes. The place was full of sideshows, to which Mrs. Beale could introduce the little girl only, alas! by revealing to her so attractive, so enthralling a name : the sideshows, each time, were sixpence apiece, and the fond allegiance enjoyed by the elder of our pair had been established from the earliest time in spite of a paucity of sixpences. Small coin dropped from her as half-heartedly as answers from bad children to lessons that had not been looked at. Maisie passed more slowly the great painted posters, pressing, with a linked arm, closer to her friend's pocket, where she hoped for the sensible stir of a shilling. Vol. XVII. -- No. 98. B But the upshot of this was but...« less