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Updated: June 24, 2025
He, too, was a free-seat worshipper at Old Trinity. He and the music-mistress they were both of English birth, hence of the same national faith had been used to go from the same dwelling, separately, to the same house of worship, and sit in opposite galleries. But their hearts had gone up together in the holy old words that their lips breathed in the murmur of the congregation.
Poor Marcelle lived with her heart in her mouth, trembling, at every rustle of the curtain, for her purple ribbon. However, luck favoured the bold, while the only bad moment in which Eileen was on the verge of detection she surmounted by a stroke of genius. "What are you hiding there?" said the music-mistress, more sharply than she was wont to address her pet pupil.
As I had anticipated, Kondjé-Gul was shut up with her music-mistress. I sent up my name in the ordinary way, and was immediately introduced. "What! is it you?" she said, pretending before her mistress to be surprised at such an early visit. "Have you come to play a duet with me?"
I told my sister this, and she answered that if you wish to come over here, and if Father O'Grady advises it, she will take you as music-mistress. You will live in the convent. You can enter it, if you wish, as a postulant, or if you should remain an extern teacher the salary they will give you will be fifty pounds a year.
His answer to her complaint was simple and graphic for, drawing up the sleeve of a handsome surtout, he showed the threadbare sleeve of the black coat beneath, and said, touching the whitened seams, "I should not be driven to the subterfuge of wearing a greatcoat this hot weather to conceal the poverty of my dress beneath, if it were not that I wish to give you the advantage of such instruction as you are now neglecting." The shaft went home, and the music-mistress had no occasion to complain again.
A shade passed across the Reverend Mother's face. 'There's no doubt that the new wing has cost us a great deal of money. 'Then there are the French nuns 'My dear Oliver, if you wish me to engage Miss Glynn as music-mistress I'll do so. There's no use speaking to me about the French nuns. I'll engage her because you ask me, but I cannot pay her as much as those who have diplomas.
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