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He had a dim feeling that it was a shabby service which he was called upon to perform; but then of course Miss Pillby, who taught the young ladies, and who was no doubt a wise and discreet personage, knew best; and a possible sixpence was a great temptation. 'Them rushes and weeds down by the bank wants cutting. Gar'ner told me about it last week, said the astute youth.
'Miss Pillby, will you be kind enough to show Ida Palliser the state of her desk? asked Miss Pew, with awe-inspiring politeness. 'She needn't do anything of the kind, 'said Ida coolly. 'I know the state of my desk quite as well as she does. I daresay it's untidy. I haven't had time to put things straight. 'Untidy! exclaimed Miss Pew, in her appalling baritone; 'untidy is not the word.
Ida was too closely hemmed in and guarded for him to get speech of her; and the maiden procession passed on without any violation of the proprieties. 'Did you see that underbred young man following us as we came home? asked Miss Pillby, with a disgusted air, as she shared an invigorating repast of bread and butter and toast and water with the pupils who had been to church.
'I hope you are not going to confiscate that, Miss Pew, as you have confiscated my sketches. 'It would be no more than you deserve if I were to burn everything in your locker, Miss Palliser, said the schoolmistress. 'Burn everything except my brother's portrait. I might never get another. Papa is so thoughtless. Oh, please, Miss Pillby, give me back the photo.
'No doubt she appreciated your kindness, said Miss Motley, absently, being just then absorbed in an abstruse calculation as to how many yards of merino would be required for her winter gown. 'No, she did not, said Miss Pillby. 'If she had been grateful she would have invited me to her home. I should not have gone, but the act would have given me a higher idea of her character.
She insisted upon being kept informed of all that went wrong in her establishment, but she was apt to be out of temper with the informant. 'Neither, answered Miss Pillby, with an awful shake of her sandy locks; 'I don't believe there is a servant in this house who would so far forget herself. And as to the pupils
Don't tell Palliser that I know anything about him. She mightn't like it. The Fraeulein shook her head, and put her finger to her lips, just as Miss Motley rose from her knees, remarking that it was impossible for anybody to pray in a proper business-like manner with such whispering and chattering going on. Next day Miss Pillby contrived to get a walk in the garden before the early dinner.
Now Miss Pillby had never loved Ida Palliser, objecting to her on broad grounds as a person whose beauty and talents were an indirect injury to mediocre people. Since Ida's visit to The Knoll her angry feeling had intensified with every mention of the pleasures and comforts of that abode.
Miss Pew pretended not to see the challenge in the girl's angry eyes. She turned to her subordinate, Miss Pillby, the useful drudge who did a little indifferent teaching in English grammar and geography, looked after the younger girls' wardrobes, and toadied the mistress of the house.
The object of the stranger's admiration was evidently Ida Palliser. 'I thought as much, mused Miss Pillby, as she listened, or seemed to listen, to the trials and triumphs of the children of Israel, chanted by fresh young voices with a decidedly rural twang; 'this explains everything.
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