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From a pouch in his dingy coat he produced a key, applied it to a door, and opened to us two small rooms, without a window in either, without a leaf to shade, without bath-closet or kitchen. And this was the residence sumptuously appointed for the English governess to the royal family of Siam! And furnished! and garnished!
They cannot be parted, that is very evident, and as Primrose must be more than eighteen she would not care to go to school. Yes, a resident governess seems the plan of plans. I would take them up to London early in the spring, and give them the advantage of the very best masters." "Primrose seems very unhappy about it," replied Noel.
Surely there are plenty of other Miss Beverleys in the world; and" again he thought of Merry "we might perhaps find some one a little less old-fashioned." "I am afraid, dear, that is impossible, for you will not allow a resident governess in the house." "I will not," said Mr. Cardew with decision. "Such an arrangement would break in on our family life. You know my views."
She stood still a moment after this impulsive entrance, and the governess turned toward Mrs. Foss a face that, benign and enlightened though it was, called up the memory of faces seen in good-humored German comic papers. The expression of her smile said to the company that she was guiltless in the matter of this invasion.
She herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow, and nobody in the house but the governess was in the governess's plight; yet she accepted without directly impugning my sanity the truth as I gave it to her, and ended by showing me, on this ground, an awestricken tenderness, an expression of the sense of my more than questionable privilege, of which the very breath has remained with me as that of the sweetest of human charities.
A heavy step advanced, followed by the murmur of trailing skirts upon carpet. Then Thomas spoke his tone that full and measured one employed, not to the governess, to Jane, to herself, or to any other common mortal, but to Potter, to her father and mother, and to guests. "This is Miss Gwendolyn's nursery," he announced. Beyond the curtains were persons of importance!
His niece admitted them, and went back to her interrupted cooking. The children hurried up the winding stone staircase, with its iron rail and its gas lantern, to the second floor. In the sitting-room, the sour-faced governess was darning a hole in a small stocking.
"Only tell me!" he eagerly rejoined "only tell me what I can do!" "You are going to-day to see your new place, ain't you?" "Yes." "Can you put off going till to-morrow?" "If it's any thing serious of course I can!" Geoffrey looked round at the entrance to the summer-house, to make sure that they were alone. "You know the governess here, don't you?" he said, in a whisper. "Miss Silvester?" "Yes.
As you may easily guess the Fynes, in their apartments, had read the news at the same time, and, as a matter of fact, in the same august and highly moral newspaper, as the governess in the luxurious mansion a few doors down on the opposite side of the street. But they read them with different feelings. They were thunderstruck. Fyne had to explain the full purport of the intelligence to Mrs.
Then, taking the initiative, added quietly, "it begins, Mr. Cleek, at a period when the little boy, whose governess I am at present, was but two years old, and at Trincomalee, where his late father was stationed with his regiment four years ago.
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