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Updated: June 11, 2025
She left us, as we then understood, to be married. We heard no more of her until a week or ten days since, when my mother received a letter, in which our ex-governess described herself as being in a condition of great poverty and distress.
Lady Augusta, encountering her ex-governess in the drawing-room that evening, raised her eyeglass to that noble feature, her nose, and condescended a questioning inspection, full of disapproval of the heavy, well-falling black silk and the Elizabethan frill. "You are looking shockingly pale and thin," she said. Dolly glanced at her reflection in an adjacent mirror.
It may be observed, in passing, that Miss Bilson was fond of food and made a good deal of noise in eating, particularly when, as on the present occasion, she combined that operation with continuous speech. This may account for Damaris bestowing greater attention on the manner than the matter of her ex-governess' communications.
"I I told him you would be up soon," stammered the poor, man-hating ex-governess. "You did?" said Miss Guile, with what was supposed to be a deadly look in her eyes. "Well, he enquired," said the other. "Anything else?" domineered the beauty. "I forgot to mention one thing. He did ask me if your name was really Bedelia." "And what did you tell him?" cried the girl, in sudden agitation.
It was quite evident, that sympathy ran high in Edith's favour, and that they cared not a jot for the ex-governess or the new master. But they were too well trained to betray what they thought concerning the two last named persons. The matter was duly talked over throughout the neighbourhood. Some shook their heads but said nothing, and others said a great deal that meant nothing.
He had always been of the opinion that the late Baronet would make a will leaving the principal portion of his property to his niece, but fancied that he would come in for a couple of thousand a year, to enable him to support the title; but finding that his name did not appear in the will, he felt both disappointed and annoyed beyond measure, and quite ready to acquiesce in the proposal made him by the intriguing ex-governess.
Somerled's smooth black head again, and he glared at me in a kind of amused desperation. "You must know some one who would act as your chaperon for a few days, at a good salary sent home by train when we'd done with her. That ex-governess or nurse of yours, you told me about." "Oh, Heppie wouldn't be found dead leaving Grandma," said I. "Not that she loves her.
And we must not overlook the pious De Maintenon, who lives in constant terror lest some day or other your presence should recall to the king that golden vision of his youth, whereof Olympia Mancini was the enshrined divinity. For this reason you are more obnoxious to the ex-governess than De Montespan herself.
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