finishingtouch

Updated: May 18, 2025

Miss Thornton had been a governess all her life; and now, at the age of five-and-forty, had come to keep her brother's house for him, add her savings to his, and put the finishingtouch on Mary's somewhat rough education. "My love," said she, "I have brought you your gloves." "Oh, indeed, Auntie, I won't wear them," said Mary. "I couldn't be plagued with gloves. Nobody wears them here." "Mrs.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn