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Joseph brought the luncheon up to Carmina's room. The mistress was still at her studies; the master had gone to his club. As for the girls, their only teacher for the present was the teacher of music. When the ordeal of the lecture and the discussion had been passed, Mrs. Gallilee threatened to take Miss Minerva's place herself, until a new governess could be found.
"Now," said Mrs. Gallilee, "what do you want?" "Only a little word. How well you're looking, my dear!" After a sleepless night, followed by her defeat in Carmina's room, Mrs. Gallilee looked, and knew that she looked, ugly and old. And her wretched husband had reminded her of it. "Go on!" she answered sternly. Mr. Gallilee moistened his dry lips.
With that reply, Benjulia turned to Teresa. "Where is your place?" he said. "Far or near?" "The message," she answered confusedly. "The message says." She signed to him to look in her hand-bag dropped on the floor. He found Carmina's telegram, containing the address of the lodgings. The house was close by.
But her reading had told her that trains were subject to accident. "I suppose delays occur," she said to Benjulia, "without danger to the passengers?" Before he could answer Mrs. Gallilee suddenly entered the room. She had opened the door so softly, that she took them both by surprise. To Carmina's excited imagination, she glided into their presence like a ghost.
There, nevertheless, was the feeling which drew him to Zo, contending successfully with his medical interest in a case of nervous derangement. That unintelligible sympathy with a child looked dimly out of his eyes, spoke faintly in his voice, when he replied to her. "Well," he said, "what do you do in the schoolroom?" "We look in the dictionary," Zo answered. "Carmina's got a dictionary.
Shall leave by the early train to-morrow morning, and be with you by six o'clock." Carmina's mind was exactly in the state to feel unmingled relief, at the prospect of seeing the dear old friend of her happiest days. She laid her head on the pillow that night, without a thought of what might follow the event of Teresa's return.
Introduced by such elaborate preparation, the allusion to Carmina's name could only lead, in due course, to the subject of Carmina's marriage. By indirect methods of approach, Mrs. Gallilee had at last reached the object that she had in view. There was an interval of silence between the two ladies. Mrs. Gallilee waited for Miss Minerva to speak next. Miss Minerva waited to be taken into Mrs.
My intelligent curiosity wants to study a monkey that's new to me." It was fortunate for Teresa that she was Carmina's favourite and friend, and, as such, a person to be carefully handled. Miss Minerva stopped the growing quarrel with the readiest discretion and good-feeling. She patted Teresa on the shoulder, and looked at Carmina with a pleasant smile.
His lips just touched Carmina's delicate little ear, while his mother turned away to ring the bell. "Expect me to-morrow," he whispered. "I love you! love you! love you!" He seemed to find the perfection of luxury in the reiteration of those words. When Ovid had left them, Carmina expected to hear something of her aunt's discovery in the Square. Mrs. Gallilee's innocence was impenetrable.
In the meantime, Ovid and his cousin had not been unobservant of what was passing at a little distance from them. Benjulia's great height, and his evident familiarity with the child, stirred Carmina's curiosity. Ovid seemed to be disinclined to talk of him. Miss Minerva made herself useful, with the readiest politeness. She mentioned his odd name, and described him as one of Mrs.
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