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Lobkins was a good woman on the whole, and greatly attached to her protegee, she was violent and rude in temper, or, as she herself more flatteringly expressed it, "her feelings were unkimmonly strong;" and alternate quarrel and reconciliation constituted the chief occupations of the protegee's domestic life. As, previous to his becoming the ward of Mrs.
Belle could hardly wait until she was in the street before exclaiming, "He isn't a bit like our old minister. Why why he's a man." Miss Wetheridge's visit bade fair to occasion important changes for the better in Mildred's prospects. From Mrs. Wheaton the young lady had learned of her protegee's long hours of ill-repaid toil.
The Englishman paid the charges of a decent funeral, and took back to the Stukelys the intelligence of their protegee's fate; but no one knew the secret of her destruction. That secret was, however, suspected by Jane Stukely, who broke her engagement with you on the strength of the dark suspicion.
Lobkins was a good woman on the whole, and greatly attached to her protegee, she was violent and rude in temper, or, as she herself more flatteringly expressed it, "her feelings were unkimmonly strong;" and alternate quarrel and reconciliation constituted the chief occupations of the protegee's domestic life. As, previous to his becoming the ward of Mrs.
Trophies of Union Jacks and Rising Suns were grouped in corners and festooned above windows and doorways. Lady Everington was bent upon giving an international importance to her protégée's marriage.
But when the month of May began, and Lienhard told his aunt that Loni, who had only remained in Nuremberg during Lent to spend the time when all public performances were prohibited, had applied to the Council for permission to give exhibitions with his company Easter week in the Haller Meadows, the matron was troubled about her protegee's peace of mind.
Smithson had promised Lady Kirkbank, sportively as it were, and upon the impulse of the moment, as he would have offered to wager a dozen of gloves, that were he so happy as to win her protégée's hand he would find her an investment for, say, a thousand, which would bring her in twenty per cent.; nay, more, he would also find the thousand, which would have been the initial difficulty on poor Georgie's part.
"Mary Howard!" repeated Ida, as if the name were one she had heard before, "who is she, and what is she?" "Nobody but a town pauper," answered Rose, "and one of Jenny's protegee's. You see she is sitting by her." "She doesn't seem like a pauper," said Ida. "I wish she would take off that veil. I want to see how she looks."
Granger." My lady had taken pains to advertise her share in the manufacturer's marriage. Every one belonging to her set knew that the match was her contriving, and that Clarissa had to thank the mistress of Hale Castle for her millionaire husband. She was really proud of her protegee's success, and was never tired of praising her and "that admirable Granger."
When the accounts of his protegee's progress were more than usually enthusiastic, his visits were generally followed very speedily by the arrival of some costly gift for Miss Beaumont's pupil a ring a bracelet a locket always in perfect taste, and such as a young lady at a boarding-school might wear, but always of the most valuable description.
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