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Then he would stroke his moustache and twinkle at her with amused eyes, as he said "Bravo, Bridgie, right to a fraction! I'll ask Miss Munns to take me in hand next since she has scored such a triumph out of you.
The whole entertainment was, in truth, but a gorgeous setting to that conversation with Jack, which might be their last tete-a-tete for so long to come. The dressmaker who was preparing Miss Trevor's dress for the great occasion had seldom had more difficulty in satisfying an employer, and the sum total expended on fineries would have horrified Miss Munns if she had been allowed to see the bills.
Tell Mrs Hilliard with my love that I shall be charmed to see her this afternoon!" Miss Munns was greatly excited to hear of the expected visit, and busied herself taking the holland covers off the drawing-room chairs, and displaying the best antimacassars in the most advantageous position.
The Local Council of Toronto adopted a resolution to the same effect. In 1911 the association organized another deputation to wait upon the Premier March 4, who were introduced by William Munns, the secretary. The bill introduced by Mr. Studholme, seconded by W. Proudfoot, Liberal from Center Huron after three days' discussion was lost.
When Bridgie returned home, Miss Munns insisted on several expeditions to town, and also to surrounding suburbs, where lived those family connections to whom it was clearly the girl's duty to say good-bye.
Are you quite sure it was not Germany where she was at school?" "Berlin, was it? Berlin!" said Miss Munns, meditating with her finger to her lip. "Yes, I think it was, because I remember I always associated it with the wool. All these foreign schools are alike. Nothing comes of them but bowing and scraping. Give me a good sound English education!"
Instead she murmured a few non- committal phrases, and gave the conversation a less personal tone, by inquiring after the various friends at home Miss Munns, Bridgie, Pixie and the boys, and Jack answered in his usual breezy fashion, relating little incidents which made Sylvia smile with the old happy sense of friendship, repeating loving speeches, which brought the grateful tears to her eyes.
Miss Munns did indeed give both time and strength to charitable work, and withal a generous share of her small income, but her interest was of the head, not of the heart, and she was sublimely ignorant of her failure to help or comfort. Bridgie thought she was not helping at all, and was ashamed of herself because she was on no committees, and knew nothing of authorised agencies.
"I thought I would come across for my sister, and inquire how Miss Trevor was after her journey," he announced; and once more Sylvia smiled to herself as she noted how Esmeralda immediately plunged into animated conversation with Miss Munns, to keep her attention engrossed at the opposite end of the room.
You are a different shape," said Pixie truthfully, whereupon Miss Munns sent a sharp inquiry over the edge of her spectacles, but the glance which met hers was so guileless that no suspicions could live in its presence. So she said, "Humph!" once more, and that ended the discussion.
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