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"Nobody's in the house, sir. It's to be let, if you please, as soon as the furniture can be moved." "Do you know where Zo is? I mean, Mr. Gallilee's youngest child." "I'm sorry to say, sir, I'm not acquainted with the family." He waited at the door, apparently hesitating what to do next. "I'll go upstairs," he said suddenly; "I want to look at the house. You needn't go with me; I know my way."
Maria had submitted, without appearing to be particularly pleased at the prospect of so early a walk. To this the master had answered, "Get your things on directly!" and had said it so sharply that Miss Zoe stared at him in astonishment. Had they taken anything with them a travelling bag for instance? They had taken nothing, except Mr. Gallilee's umbrella. Who had seen Mr.
We are to have the apparatus, which illustrates the conversion of radiant energy into sonorous vibrations. Have you ever heard, my dear, of the Diathermancy of Ebonite? Not in your way, perhaps?" Carmina looked as unintelligent as Zo herself. Mrs. Gallilee's science seemed to frighten her.
Gallilee's answer, when he once asked why she kept such an irritable woman in the house, had been entirely satisfactory, so far as she herself was concerned: "Miss Minerva is remarkably well informed, and I get her cheap." Exactly like his mother! But it left Miss Minerva's motives involved in utter obscurity.
Le Frank to be competent, as director of any young lady's musical studies? Thank you. On the one point on which I wished to consult you, my mind is at ease. Do you know where Carmina is?" "In her room, I believe." "Will you have the goodness to send her here?" "With the greatest pleasure. Good-evening!" So ended Mrs. Gallilee's first attempt to make use of Miss Minerva, without trusting her.
It was the day after Mrs. Gallilee's interview with her lawyer and this was Carmina's answer, when the governess entered her room, after the lessons of the morning, and asked if she felt better. "Are you still taking medicine?" Miss Minerva inquired. "Yes. Mr. Null says it's a tonic, and it's sure to do me good. It doesn't seem to have begun yet. I feel so dreadfully weak, Frances.
Gallilee's confidence. The sparrows twittered in the garden; and, far away in the schoolroom, the notes of the piano announced that the music lesson had begun. "The birds are noisy," said Mrs. Gallilee. "And the piano sounds out of tune," Miss Minerva remarked. There was no help for it. Either Mrs. Gallilee must return to the matter in hand -or the matter in hand must drop.
Mool, bent on making himself agreeable to everybody, paid his court to Mr. Gallilee's youngest daughter. "And who do you mean to marry, my little Miss, when you grow up?" the lawyer asked with feeble drollery. Zo looked at him in grave surprise. "That's all settled," she said; "I've got a man waiting for me." "Oh, indeed! And who may he be?" "Donald!"
They inherit my stomach, Miss Minerva and they'll 'tuck in, as we used to say at school. Did they say so in your time, Mr. Le Frank?" Mrs. Gallilee's governess and vulgar expressions were anomalies never to be reconciled, under any circumstances. Miss Minerva took off the hats in stern silence.
"Pray come to me; I am waiting for you in the garden of the Square." In those two lines, Ovid's note began and ended. Mrs. Gallilee's maid deeply interested in an appointment which was not without precedent in her own experience ventured on an expression of sympathy, before she returned to the servants' hall. "Please to excuse me, Miss; I hope Mr. Ovid isn't ill? He looked sadly pale, I thought.
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