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After all, was it not pleasant to know that while she was at home, there was a little more comfort than usual for her over-worked, hardly-driven, careworn father; she could see that his meals were properly cooked and served when he came in from long and weary expeditions into the country or amongst the poor of Beaminster; she could help Joey and Georgie in the evenings with their respective lessons; she could teach and care for the younger children all day long.
"You have not said either of the things that I was expecting to hear," said Wyvis. "What were those?" "How much money he had a year!" "Oh, he told me about that." "Or an allusion to his forbears: his father's character and his mother's relations the two bugbears of Beaminster." "I think nothing of those, if Cuthbert himself is good." "Well, he is good.
"I am very much obliged to you," she said at last, with a thrill of gratitude in her sweet voice which was very pleasant to the ear. "But I was thinking what time would be the most convenient for me to go home to-morrow?" "Home? To Beaminster?" said Margaret. "But you need not go, dear; you can write a note and tell them that you are staying here."
He looked at her for a moment as if she puzzled him. "You have been teaching music in Beaminster, I believe?" "Yes and other things." "May I ask what other things?" Janetta smiled. "I have a little sister, Tiny," she said, "and I teach her everything she learns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic, you know. And a neighbor's little boy comes in and learns with her."
And Miss Burroughs, looking into the girl's worn face, and noticing the peculiar significance of her tone, refrained from pressing the point. She was sure from both that some hidden pain existed, that there was some secret reason why Janetta felt that she "must get away." She was anxious to help the girl, but she saw that it would be no true kindness to keep her in Beaminster against her will.
"Exactly," said Philip, with some heat, "and therefore while the report of it will not injure your daughter, it may do irreparable harm to a girl who has her own way to make in the world. The gossip of Beaminster tea-tables is not to be despised.
A steam-laundry in Beaminster, for example what had a man like Sir Philip Ashley to do with a steam-laundry? And yet he was establishing one in the old city, and actually assuring people that it would "pay." He had been exerting himself about the drainage of the place and the dwellings of the poor.
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