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She knows." He seemed to rouse himself. "What do you want to do?" "I want to play out of doors," Mary answered, hoping that her voice did not tremble. "I never liked it in India. It makes me hungry here, and I am getting fatter." He was watching her. "Mrs. Sowerby said it would do you good. Perhaps it will," he said. "She thought you had better get stronger before you had a governess."
"She gives so much trouble " said the doctor. "Trouble! I thought her parents were so fond of her." "Mr. Randolph is unequal to any agitation; and Mrs. Randolph regulates everything." "But wouldn't it be good for Daisy?" "I think so." "Poor child! What will they do with her?" "Send her to a Southern plantation, under care of a governess, as I understand." "It will half kill Daisy," said Mrs.
People at her table decided that she couldn't be going out as a governess or she would hardly be travelling first class, and yet she did not look of the sort who globe-trot all by themselves. Rather tall, slender without being thin, she moved well. Her ringless hands were smooth and prettily shaped, so were her slim feet, and always singularly well-shod.
Sir Miles's stately person, his imposing dress, the respect with which he was surrounded, all tended to beget notions of superiority and power, to which it was no shame to succumb, as it was to Miss Black, the governess, whom the maids answered pertly, or Martha, the nurse, whom Miss Black snubbed if Lucretia tore her frock.
But now she did know better, and she ate her breakfast in an oak-paneled dining-room, with a waitress at her elbow, and her buckwheats hot from a silver dish instead of the smoking griddle. She had a governess for her two boys, Tom and Jack, and a nurse for her little Maude, who, in her ambitious heart, she hoped would one day marry Dick St. Clair, the young heir of Grassy Spring.
"Ah!" he speculated, when she had finished, "this is really interesting. It is not often that I am blessed with a fair visitor in my bachelor apartments. I do not need a governess, having, thank heaven, no such useless appendage as a troop of noisy children, but I do stand in need of some beautiful lady, like yourself, for a companion to cheer my loneliness.
"Our poor governess! so mild and timid," resumed Blanche. "How you would frighten her!" "Yes," said Dagobert, as he tried to conceal his rising embarrassment; "but she does not hear us. She is gone into the country." "Good, worthy woman!" replied Blanche, with interest. "She said something of you, which shows her excellent heart."
The melancholy circumstances of the case are complicated by the disappearance, on the day of the murder, of the woman's young son by her first husband. The poor boy is supposed to have run away in terror from his miserable home, and the police are endeavoring to discover some trace of him. But nothing is known about her." "Has your governess any relations in England?" Randal asked.
No one could doubt that the young governess had, what was a very useful thing to a governess, "a will of her own;" but not a domineering or obnoxious will, which indeed is seldom will at all, but merely obstinacy. For the rest, Miss Williams was a little woman, or gave the impression of being so, from her slight figure and delicate hands and feet.
In deploring her mother's situation, Madame Louis Bonaparte informed her former governess, Madame Cam -n, of these particulars, which I heard her relate at Madame de M r's, almost verbatim as I report them to you. Such, and other scenes, nearly of the same description, are neither rare nor singular, in the most singular Court that ever existed in civilized Europe. PARIS, August, 1805.
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