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Well, the last time Dolly had "tried Switzerland," she had tried it in the capacity of Lady Augusta's governess, and she had held in charge a host of rampant young Bilberrys, who secretly loathed their daily duties, and were not remarkable in the matter of filial piety, and were only reconciled to existence by the presence of their maternal parent's greatest trial, that highly objectionable Dorothea Crewe.
"By the way," she began, all at once. "Yes, it must be! How was it I did not think of it when Grif was talking? I am sure, it was Gowan, Lady Augusta said. To be sure it was. Mollie, this exploring nephew of the Flynns is to partake of coffee and conversation with us at the Bilberrys' on Friday, if I am not mistaken, and I never remembered it until now." A TOILET in Vagabondia was an event.
Marmaduke Sholto Bilberry, and mother of the plenteous crop of young Bilberrys, to whom little Miss Crewe was music teacher and morning governess. So it was that Mollie's joke about the tucks and white muslin gained additional point from the family recollection of past experiences. "But," said Dolly, when the laugh had subsided, "it won't do to talk nonsense all day.
I have seen her take just as much trouble to please Phemie and the little Bilberrys as she would take to please Griffith or or Mr. Gowan. And see how fond they were of her. If she had cared for nothing but masculine admiration, do you think Phemie would have adored her as she did, and those dull children would have been so desolate when she left them? No, I tell you.
"Never mind the picture," said Mollie, drawing her disreputable slippers up under her wrapper. "We want to hear how Dolly thinks of going to the Bilberrys'. Oh, Dolly, how heavenly it would be if you had a turquoise-blue sat " "Heavenly!" interrupted Dolly. "I should think so.
Dolly's eyes flew open wide, in a very sublimity of astonishment. "Wish you were going?" she echoed. "To the Bilberrys'?" Mollie nodded. "Yes, even there. I want to go somewhere. I think I should enjoy myself a little anywhere. I should like to see the people, and hear them talk, and find out what they do, and wear an evening dress." Dolly gazed at her in mingled pity and bewilderment.
She would employ her to fill the vacant situation at the same rate of salary she had enjoyed in her position of governess to the youthful Bilberrys, and she would employ her at once. "I want somebody to amuse me," she said, "and I think you can do it. I am often an invalid, and my medical man says the society of a young person will benefit me."
"But that I am away from you," she wrote, "I should say Brabazon Lodge was better than the Bilberrys'. There is no skirmishing with Lady Augusta, at least; and, though skirmishing with Lady Augusta is not without its mild excitement, it is not necessary to one's happiness, and may be dispensed with. I wonder what Miss MacDowlas would say if she knew why I wear this modest ring on my third finger.
And that Miss MacDowlas recognized her also was quite evident, for she advanced with the air of one who was not at all at a loss. "How do you do?" she remarked, succinctly, and gave Dolly her hand. That young person took it modestly. "I believe I have had the pleasure " she was beginning, when Miss MacDowlas interrupted her. "You met me at the Bilberrys'," she said.
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