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'Doing right can never be really coming down, he replied. 'And it is right. The other thing in London would have been impossible, on our means, and not work enough either. And there is nothing against Barmettle; the place is healthy and cheap, and good education for Eugene, and no doubt the two generally go together good masters and governesses for the girls.
Lady Myrtle, I am afraid you will be shocked at me, but do you know I sometimes almost feel I would rather papa and mamma went back to India next year than that we should have to go to live at that horrible dingy Barmettle. Lady Myrtle was not shocked.
Barmettle is not an attractive place; though like most places in this varied world it has its interests and even no doubt its charm for many of its inhabitants its bright and happy homes, as well as its thousands of hard, if not overworked, pale-faced artisans, men and women, of many grades and classes.
It was but five minutes' walk from Colonel Mildmay's official quarters, and conveniently near Eugene's school; it was very much in the minds of the teachers who now replaced the Misses Scarlett's institution as regarded the girls; it was not duller as to outlook and surroundings than had to be at Barmettle, for it faced St Wilfred's Church, one of the oldest and most interesting structures in the modern town, which had once been a pleasant straggling north-country village; and last, though not least, its rent was moderate.
I fear, though very little has been said about it, that Jassie has an intense dislike to the idea of Barmettle; and I fear still more, that in spite of Lady Myrtle's good sense and extreme wish to cause no trouble, she has somehow or other allowed some hint of her intentions to escape her. Colonel Mildmay looked very grave at this; graver than he had yet done.
'A thousand a year! that's a good deal, she said. 'I had thought' 'But why worry yourself about things that can never be, dear Jassie? said her mother. 'We were going to tell you even your Aunt Alison does not know yet that it is all decided, and oh, I am so thankful that the long separation is over at last. Your father wrote yesterday to accept the Barmettle appointment.
It began by the most strenuous opposition on the old lady's side to the Barmettle plan. She had set her heart on Colonel Mildmay's accepting the post in London which was, according to her, 'the very thing to be desired for him. 'You would be so near me, she said. 'Any or all of you could come down at any time. Robin Redbreast would be your country home.
Mrs Wake was the wife of one of Colonel Mildmay's soldier servants; she happened to belong to a Barmettle family, which was just now very fortunate for her, as she had had a most serious illness in the barracks, and had lately been moved for greater quiet to her own old home. 'Francie and I were just talking about the poor people here, said Jacinth. 'Amy Piers tells her about them.
Jacinth I don't like the idea of that post, whatever it is, at Barmettle. Jacinth drew a deep breath of relief. 'Oh, I am so glad you think so, she said. 'I scarcely liked to say it it seems selfish if it would save papa's going out again, and he has had so much of India; but it would be rather horrid, wouldn't it? And almost a come-down, it seems to me.
And even if such a position had been possible for me and I confess I cannot conceive its being so still less possible would it be now that you know our mind as to the ultimate disposal of things, and that we have been forced to thwart your more than generous, your unprecedented goodness to us. 'Then you will go to Barmettle? Colonel Mildmay bent his head.
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