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Updated: May 27, 2025
She at once bade Miss Kleary give Henrietta an extra lesson on the piano in the adjoining room, and when they had taken her at her word and disappeared, she said to John in her usual quiet, mincing tone: "You surely do not mean to give Henrietta to that man?" "Why not, pray?"
But I keep Miss Kleary in this house, I pay Miss Kleary a princely salary, in order that I may have some one at hand to whom I can explain my educational ideas. Now my educational ideas are good; nay, Miss, I think I may even say that they are very good. I will therefore beg you to do me the favour to stick to them. I know what ought and what ought not to be allowed young girls; I know that....."
I am bound, Miss, to direct your attention to the fact that I consider such a thing decidedly unbecoming in a young lady." "Dear Grandpapa.....!" began the accused. "Silence! I did not speak to Henrietta, I spoke to Miss Kleary. Miss Henrietta is still a child who understands nothing. I neither address her nor attempt to explain anything to her.
"Well, thou bloodthirsty man, what has happened? What was the end of it?" "What has happened?" repeated John with monstrously dilated eyes. "What marvel do you expect me to relate?" "Clementina, Miss Kleary, Henrietta, retire," cried the old man; "retire, go into the next room. These are not the sort of things that children should hear."
The servant approached the sofa and then stood still again. "My dinner!" This was the end of the awe-inspiring threat. The old gentleman observed, or rather, suspected, some slight amusement in the company present. "Miss Kleary!" he observed irritably, "don't you observe that Henrietta is looking out of the window again?
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