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Innocent Bridgie had no idea as to what might be expected under the circumstances, but Miss Munns, who knew everything, declared that the offer was a handsome one, and ten pounds in excess of the ordinary rate of payment. Still, as she sagely remarked, one could never tell!
The old formalities of intercourse had dropped like a cloak at the first moment of meeting; they were no longer Miss and Mr, but "Jack" and "Sylvia"; no longer acquaintances, but dear and intimate friends. "Miss Munns has been terribly distressed," Jack said, when at last the sad recital came to an end. "She loved your father more than anyone in the world, and you come next as his child.
Why should I look for the blue-bag?" cried Miss Munns, all anxiety to fathom the meaning of this perplexing statement. The most elaborate explanations on Sylvia's part failed to solve the mystery, and she kept on reiterating, "Why blue-bag?" in tones of baffled curiosity, while Sylvia lay back in her chair and sighed, and raised her eyebrows and stared hopelessly at the corner of the ceiling.
I don't see why you should be upset, my dear, for the sake of my friend." "Dear Miss Munns, I am thinking even more of my own friend. It is selfishness which makes me want to have Sylvia with me. We would enjoy being together and talking over our troubles just as you do. Please let her come!" "Troubles, my dear troubles?
The woman was so ignorant that she may really have thought that my birth was not equal to her daughter's; but all the world knows that the Munns were yeomen two hundred years ago, and that her Grace's family hails from a stucco villa in the neighborhood of Cardiff.
Downstairs in the dining-room Miss Munns had been consulting with Whitey as to how the patient was to be prepared for the ordeal of to-morrow, and by whom the news should be broken. Whitey had taken the task upon herself with the unselfish heroism of her profession, but her pretty face was worn with the strain of this long anxious case, and Bridgie's heart had ached for her in her painful task.
I was just pointing out to you, my love, that it is over an hour since you made a remark, and that such depression of spirits was very trying to me as your companion," cried Miss Munns, with an air of triumph. "After the long period of anxiety through which I have passed, I think I am entitled to expect some cheering society."
Bridgie thought maybe if you would give her a hint it would be useful, as she has no one to teach her." "I never earned a sovereign in my life, but I should be afraid to say how many I have saved!" said Miss Munns complacently. "There is nothing wasted in my house, my dear, and I should be only too thankful to tell your sister the way your servants behave when her back is turned.
She waited until Miss Munns had produced half a dozen ledgers to demonstrate the elaborate system of book-keeping by which she conducted her miniature establishment until Jack had seated himself by her side and was irrevocably victimised for the evening; then she rose from her chair and said amiably "I mustn't disturb you.
If any man wished to win her, she was worth wooing seriously, so she told herself with a tilt of the pretty dark head, but when Jack said one thing with his lips, beseeching Miss Munns to take pity on his ignorance, and put him on the path whereon he should walk, and another with his eyes, mutely inviting her to stay and flirt with him the while he pretended to listen then her pride was roused, and she determined to teach him a wholesome lesson.
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