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He had an only daughter, so dear to him that he saw with no other eyes than hers; and he kept a governess for her, who taught her chain-work and knitting, and to make point-lace, and showed her such affection as no words can tell.
The things she told were most harrowing, and some of them very true-like. One English gentleman here thought of taking her into his family as governess, until he should get her father to come for her. I was asked to visit her at his house, and hear her woeful history.
"A governess is a very nice thing," said the doctor, taking off his hat and leaning back against the iron railing, "if she knows properly how to set people to play." "To play!" I echoed. I don't know whether Miss Pinshon approves of play." "Oh! She approves of work then, does she?" "She likes work," I answered. "Keeps you busy?" "Most of the day, sir." "The evenings you have to yourself?"
Observing the avidity with which she pounced on newspapers, Miss Barrington one day secreted them, much entertained by watching the governess circling round the room, glancing on every table or couch they were likely to have been thrown on. "Try behind the sofa cushion, Miss Leigh."
There had been between them an intimacy of relation as great as it can possibly be without the final closeness of affection. The delightful Charley walked in, with his eyes fixed on the back of her governess whose raised veil hid her forehead like a brown band above the black line of the eyebrows. The girl was astounded and alarmed by the altogether unknown expression in the woman's face.
The little girl, Gertrude, so named after the mother of the late baronet, remained at Raynham under the care of two persons. These two guardians were Captain Copplestone, and a widow lady of forty years of age, Mrs. Morden, a person of unblemished integrity, who had been selected as protectress and governess of the young heiress. The child was at this time two and a half years of age.
"My mother and my brother have not added lustre to it, and I would much rather be called Signorina Emilia Moscetti and be a governess, than be Sabina Conti and live on charity. I have no right to what I do not possess and cannot earn." "My dear child! This is rank socialism! I am afraid you talked too long with Malipieri the other night."
I have promised to be back again at St. Joseph's at five o'clock, and it's nearly four now. May I tell you what I really came about?" "Oh, yes, of course, of course!" "Do you remember, before I came to London, the very kind offer you and the Squire made me?" "Of course," said Mrs. Harvey, "if you mean our wish that you should become governess to little Freda. But Freda goes to a kindergarten now.
My niece's governess was originally obtained by an advertisement, and you may imagine her value to us when I tell you she lived in our family for more than ten years. I could have gone down on both my knees and worshipped Mrs. Blanchard then and there; and I only wonder I didn't! Papa was struck at the time I could see that and he referred to it again on the way home.
Baily consented, and the floor was opened, and a trench was sunk at the spot which the governess had pointed out. Miss Anne Baily, and nearly all the members of the family, her father included, were present at this operation.
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