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Some pleasant weeks to us all had thus glided away, and Miss Marion was earnestly consulting me about her project of governessing, her health being now so restored; and I, for my part, wanted to execute my plans for obtaining a decent livelihood, as I could not think of burdening Thomas and Martha any longer, loath as they were for me to leave them.
And I think you have treated me very badly, so neither will I promise to forgive. I had set my heart on you, Gavan. You seemed to me but there, it's no use talking. I suppose I should be meek and mild, and " "But, Ellen " "No, don't interrupt me. It is the last talk together we shall have. I suppose I can go governessing, or nursing, to the end of the chapter.
Not beauty, not intellect, not wit nothing, it appeared, but a crystalline sincerity and sweetness of heart, which exercised an irresistible claim on the affections. His face softened, and he bent towards her with a kindly questioning. "How do you come to be governessing these children? You are so young still sixteen seventeen, is it? You ought to be in the schoolroom yourself!"
Many of them take regular lessons from whist experts; and among the latter themselves are not a few ladies, who find the teaching of their favourite game a more lucrative employment than governessing or journalism. Even so small a matter as the eating of ice-cream may illustrate the progressive nature of American society.
They had parted in deep anger and resentment, she to return to her governessing, for she was too proud to accept anything from him, he to remove to another regiment and go to India. At first he had tried to forget all this short interlude of love and happiness, and flung himself into a gay, wild life: but it would not do.
He seemed to prefer not to dwell farther on the legal obligations involved. "You haven't yet told me," he suggested, "how you happen to be living here." "Here with the Fulmer children?" She roused herself, trying to catch his easier note. "Oh, I've simply been governessing them for a few weeks, while Nat and Grace are in Sicily." She did not say: "It's because I've parted with Strefford."
I should have thought she had had enough of governessing the first day she went out to give a lesson: she got herself run over and nearly killed; was brought back in a cab by some gentleman, who had the decency to take the cab away again: for how we should have paid the fare, I don't know, I am sure.
She had discovered, at the cost of one of her remaining francs for omnibus fares, that a 50-franc a month governess must possess certificates, that governessing is a skilled trade overcrowded by women of the most various and remarkable talents.
'It was only daily governessing. She looks much better than when I first saw her; and as to the damask why, that's deepened by the introduction to old Lady Grosmede that is impending. 'She is being walked up to the old Spanish duck with the red rag round her leg to receive her fiat. What a thing it is to be a bearded Dowager, and rule one's neighbourhood! 'I think she approves.
This person I recognized immediately as having once seen, in your company, and joyfully retraced my steps, in the hope of hearing something that would give me a clue to your whereabouts. "'I'm Mrs. Bailey, said the woman, coming down and standing in the doorway, 'and I kalkilate you're after some news of that young girl that used to go out governessing. "I replied eagerly in the affirmative.
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