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"Her hour will be from nine to ten o'clock every other morning, and from three to four on alternate afternoons," said Miss Pillbody. "It is now half past ten," she added, consulting a watch. "Mrs. Penfeather, my eleven-o'clock pupil, is put of town to-day: so Miss Minford that is. Pet can commence now, and I will give her until twelve o'clock. This will save time." "Good!" remarked the inventor.
I know, or think, I have improved a good deal with our dear Miss Pillbody; but a smart little scholar like you must see lots of mistakes in me." At this point, Pet would blush, and murmur, "No no!" "Humbug!" Mrs. Crull would say. "I know my incurable faults, and I know that you know 'em. Their husbands, just like mine, got rich suddenly, you see.
By industry and tact, Bog made money in his new partnership, and had already laid up a snug sum in the savings bank. Between Pet and her teacher a feeling of sisterly affection had sprung up. Miss Pillbody turned with a feeling of relief from her dull elderly pupils, stiff in manners, and firmly set in their habits, to this fresh, impressible young creature.
Miss Pillbody, the teacher, tells me that she can give her an hour and a half in the morning, before ten o'clock, and half an hour in the afternoon, after four o'clock." "That will suit me exactly, pa," cried Pet, clapping her hands with glee; "because then I can get your breakfast, dinner, and supper, and do all the housework, without any interruption in my studies."
"Miss Pillbody thought the arrangement would suit you. She is a perfectly competent teacher of French, Italian, the English branches, music, drawing, the dead languages, and higher mathematics quite a prodigy, I assure you, for a lady not yet twenty-two years old." Your daughter will like her, without doubt." "I know I shall," said Pet, with enthusiasm.
Miss Pillbody did not agree with her future husband on this point, and was thinking, at that very moment, what a solemn thing marriage was, and with what ceremonious deliberation it ought to be entered upon.
"But I insist that you shall," continued Miss Pillbody, pleasantly. "Tell me, now, how much it is." Overtop was standing within two feet of the schoolmistress, and her soft, dim eyes were beaming right into his. We leave psychologists to settle the phenomenon as they will; but the fact was, that each saw love in the eyes of the other.
The long, elegant curves, and all the delicate peculiarities of her chirography, taught by Miss Pillbody, had been copied from the sample furnished by her note to Mrs. Crull. It ran as follows: MR. VAN QUINTEM: DEAR SIR: Come to me at once, for I am in trouble. Van Quintem, jr., was most likely to be, and, when he was found, to send this note in to him by a servant.
Overtop was regarded with curiosity, as the reputed hero of the Slapman scandal. Matthew Maltboy was universally condemned as too fat, and, with that brief criticism, was dismissed. Miss Pillbody was pronounced "a little proud," because she stood straight, with shoulders thrown back, which was her usual attitude.
To this secluded oyster dealer, as solitary and happy in the midst of his new grandeur as a bivalve in its native bed, came a plausible stockbroker, who, after a series of interviews, persuaded Mr. Pillbody to make a small investment in the "Sky Blue Ridge Pure Vein Copper Mining Company." The small investment unfortunately turned out well.
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