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Aunt Theresa rather dreaded Mrs. Minchin's indignation in the matter, I believe; but needlessly, for Miss Perry and Mrs. Minchin quarrelled about this time, and Mrs. Minchin had then so much information to Miss Perry's disadvantage at her fingers' ends, that it seemed wonderful that she should ever have recommended her. For some little time our education progressed in a very desultory fashion.
She stood still, and her green-gray eyes met his wonderingly. Something seemed to be the matter with him. "You live next door?" he demanded. "Yes; I live at Miss Minchin's seminary." "But you are not one of her pupils?" A strange little smile hovered about Sara's mouth. She hesitated a moment. "I don't think I know exactly WHAT I am," she replied. "Why not?"
You have no home and no one to take care of you." The little pale olive face twitched nervously, but the green-gray eyes did not move from Miss Minchin's, and still Sara said nothing. "What are you staring at?" demanded Miss Minchin sharply. "Are you so stupid you don't understand what I mean?
I am giving her a home, and that is more than she has any right to expect from me." Sara did not expect much, and was far too proud to try to continue to be intimate with girls who evidently felt rather awkward and uncertain about her. The fact was that Miss Minchin's pupils were a set of dull, matter-of-fact young people.
"Miss Minchin's tables and chairs are just like her," she thought; "I remember thinking that the first minute I saw her, even though I was so little. I told papa afterward, and he laughed and said it was true. I am sure the Large Family have fat, comfortable armchairs and sofas, and I can see that their red-flowery wallpaper is exactly like them. It's warm and cheerful and kind-looking and happy."
A hot flush showed itself on Miss Minchin's hard, angry face. "You will never see your companions again," she began. "I will see that Ermengarde and Lottie are kept away " Mr. Carmichael stopped her with polite firmness. "Excuse me," he said; "she will see anyone she wishes to see.
She knew quite well that if Sara wrote to her papa to tell him she was uncomfortable or unhappy, Captain Crewe would remove her at once. Miss Minchin's opinion was that if a child were continually praised and never forbidden to do what she liked, she would be sure to be fond of the place where she was so treated.
Minchin's, who had persuaded Aunt Theresa to take her for our governess. She was quite unfit for the position, and did no little harm to us in her brief reign. But I do not think that our interests had entered in the least into Mrs. Minchin's calculations in the matter. She had "taken Miss Perry up," and to get Miss Perry a comfortable home was her sole object.
Minchin had popped his clogs into the umbrella-stand; and the rank of that respected person, and the dignified manner in which he led her up stairs, caused all sneering on the part of the domestics to disappear. A hundred of knocks follow Frederick Minchin's: in half an hour Messrs.
She had never had a friend since those happy, luxurious days when she had had everything; and those days had seemed such a long way off so far away as to be only like dreams during these last years at Miss Minchin's. She really cried more at this strange thought of having a friend even though an unknown one than she had cried over many of her worst troubles.
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