Hmmm...
"needs”, We L & I called at Brights & had tea
xxx after few mins Ray’s rather
jolly girls (I read “fools” at first, but I think Deb is right) were there & a most extraordinary spinster named
“Wooly” of a
(not sure about angry – the first letter is not his usual kind of “a” and there is what looks like an “s” in the middle. I was wondering about “dusky” with a “g” instead of a “k”, but I’m probably going waaaay too far out on a limb here…) cast of features & a most
rustick(*) way of
(I don’t see antagonising here. Could it be a form of anathema**?) those who she disagreed with, as
xxxxx xxxx xxx under her
(disapproves?) xxx. (We?) had the greatest fun by keeping our connections with the Plackett Chapel quiet till just before we left & then throwing her in to most delightful state of confusion by “declaring the same” Old Bright brought the declaration about purposefully I believe. Had delightful"
*Rustick: Obsolete form of rustic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rustick**Anathema:
• 1mass noun Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
‘racial hatred was anathema to her’
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• 2A formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.
‘the Pope laid special emphasis on the second of these anathemas’
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1. 2.1literary A strong curse.
‘the sergeant clutched the ruined communicator, muttering anathemas’
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