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"I thought of that, too, Honey, and I wasn't going to tell you to-night, Blue Bonnet you've had enough excitement for one day; but Miss Clyde went to see Gabriel this morning that was her business engagement and we're going to take the little chap to Woodford with his nurse for a while. Miss Clyde thinks that she can find a boarding-place.
Besides, the world shows a tendency to detest weak fools even more than knaves. After his last bitter experience Haldane felt unwilling to venture to another hotel, and he endeavored to find a quiet boarding-place; but as soon as he mentioned his name, the keepers, male and female, suddenly discovered that they had no rooms.
Beyond one delightful call at the modest little boarding-place where she was stopping, whilst waiting for an answer to her advertisement for a post as governess or companion, an answer which speedily came and was as speedily accepted, he had not met her at all since their parting in Paris, and, as their friendship was not sufficiently close to warrant the interchange of letters, she seemed as far away from him as ever.
Each night he left his boarding-place, drawn by an impulse he could not resist, to walk slowly to and fro opposite the theatre entrance, calculating with agonized eye the meagre numbers of those who entered. This hurt him worst of all that these motes, these cheap little boys and girls, could now sneer at or pity Helen Merival. "I brought her to this," he repeated, with morbid sense of power.
"Of what kind?" "Any kind." "I will engage you, for the present, at ten dollars a week. Will that suit you?" "Yes, sir. Nothing could suit me better." "Do you think you can live on that?" "Easily." "Then that is settled. To-night you will go home with me. To-morrow will be soon enough to look for a boarding-place. Here are your first week's wages in advance." "Thank you, sir. You are very kind."
Miss Farrel always smiled, never frowned or reprimanded. It was said that Miss Farrel had better government than Miss Florence Dean, the other assistant. Miss Dean was plain and saturnine, and had no difficulty in obtaining a good boarding-place, even with the mother of a marriageable daughter, who had taken her in with far-sighted alacrity.
I am glad that we endured all those discomforts and inconveniences. I am glad that our students had to dig out the place for their kitchen and dining room. I am glad that our first boarding-place was in the dismal, ill-lighted, and damp basement. Had we started in a fine, attractive, convenient room, I fear we would have "lost our heads" and become "stuck up."
"Not less than a thousand dollars perhaps twice that." "Phew! It's worth workin' for." "Yes, indeed!" put in Mrs. Linyard. "I hope you get it, Mr. Dare; you deserve it." When Richard returned to his boarding-place he met Frank Massanet at the door. He could see by his friend's face that he had not met with success. "I tried twenty-six places," reported Frank. "Every one had all the help needed.
It took like wild-fire; and when Little Bel, shrewd and diplomatic as a statesman, invited the two oldest and worst boys in the school to come Wednesday and Saturday afternoons to her boarding-place to practise singing with her to the accompaniment of the piano, so as to be able to help her lead the rest, her sovereignty was established.
"I get some time to read," continued Benjamin, "and I mean to get more, though there is much confusion at my boarding-place." "You must not gain time for reading at the expense of neglecting your work," suggested his mother. "Your time is your brother's, and, first of all, you must fulfill your obligations to him. Fidelity is a cardinal virtue, remember." "Of course," replied Benjamin.
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