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Miss Polehampton has been a great deal put out about it all, and has written a long letter to your papa, Janetta; and, indeed, it seems to me as if it would have been more becoming if you had kept to your own place and not tried to make friends with those above you " "Who are those above her, I should like to know?" broke in the grey-haired surgeon with some heat.
"You are not equals," said Miss Polehampton, with icy displeasure in her tone she had spoken very differently to Margaret. "You have to work for your bread: there is no disgrace in that, but it puts you on a different level from that of Miss Margaret Adair, an earl's grand-daughter, and the only child of one of the richest commoners in England.
"But Janetta's own people live quite near us," said Margaret, reduced to a very pleading tone. "I know them at home; they live at Beaminster not three miles off." "And may I ask if Lady Caroline visits them, my dear?" asked Miss Polehampton, with mild sarcasm, which brought the color again to Margaret's fair face.
Her dress of soft, white muslin was quite simple the ideal dress for a young girl and yet it was so beautifully made, so perfectly finished in every detail, that Miss Polehampton never looked at it without an uneasy feeling that she was too well-dressed for a schoolgirl.
"I know about them, too," said Miss Polehampton, grimly; "and I do not think that you will ever advance Miss Colwyn's interests by mentioning her connection with that family. I have heard Lady Caroline speak of Mrs. Brand and her children. They are not people, my dear Margaret, whom it is desirable for you to know."
She went straight to Miss Polehampton and demanded that Janetta should remain; and when the schoolmistress refused to alter her decision, she calmly replied that in that case she should go home too.
Miss Polehampton looked at her for a moment in silence. "To begin with," she said, "I could order the meals differently, and request you to take yours with the younger children, and in other ways cut you off from the society of the young ladies. And if this failed, I could signify to your father that our arrangement was not satisfactory, and that it had better end at the close of this term."
"I am afraid that my sudden departure from Miss Polehampton's school has prejudiced some people against me." "And could not somebody write to Miss Polehampton and get her to give you a testimonial?" "I am afraid she would refuse." "And that is all Margaret Adair's fault, is it not?" said Lady Ashley, shrewdly but kindly. She was amused to see the flush of indignation in Janetta's face.
She would be the last person to wish me to humiliate myself to Miss Polehampton!" "I do not see that what she wishes has much to do with it," said Sir Philip, very stiffly. "Miss Colwyn is suffering under an injustice. I ask you to repair that injustice. I really do not see how you can refuse."
"My dear," said Miss Polehampton, "when your dear mamma gave you into my charge, I am sure she considered me responsible for the influences under which you were brought, and the friendships that you made under my roof." "Mamma knew that I could not be hurt by any friendship that I made here," said Margaret, with the softest flattery.
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