`` Does n't she look angelic ? '' said Cecily rapturously . `` Mind you , '' said Sara Ray , `` the Awkward Man is here -- in the corner behind the door . I never remember seeing him at a concert before . '' `` I suppose he came to hear the Story Girl recite , '' said Felicity . `` He is such a friend of hers . '' The concert went off very well . Dialogues , choruses and recitations followed each other in rapid succession . Felix got through his without `` getting stuck , '' and Peter did excellently , though he stuffed his hands in his trousers pockets -- a habit of which Mr. Perkins had vainly tried to break him . Peter 's recitation was one greatly in vogue at that time , beginning , `` My name is Norval ; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks . '' At our first practice Peter had started gaily in , rushing through the first line with no thought whatever of punctuation -- `` My name is Norval on the Grampian Hills . '' `` Stop , stop , Peter , '' quoth Mr. Perkins , sarcastically , `` your name might be Norval if you were never on the Grampian Hills . There 's a semi-colon in that line , I wish you to remember . '' Peter did remember it . Cecily neither fainted nor failed when it came her turn . She recited her little piece very well , though somewhat mechanically . I think she really did much better than if she had had her desired curls . The miserable conviction that her hair , alone among that glossy-tressed bevy , was looking badly , quite blotted out all nervousness and self-consciousness from her mind . Her hair apart , she looked very pretty . The prevailing excitement had made bright her eye and flushed her cheeks rosily -- too rosily , perhaps .
I heard a Carlisle woman XXXXX me whisper that Cecily King looked consumptive , just like her Aunt Felicity ; and I hated her fiercely for it .
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