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Wilfrid? The governess was mentioned to her by name; Beatrice looked at her steadfastly for a moment. 'But how have you got here? inquired Mrs. Rossall. 'You must have left London at an unheard-of hour; and how have yen come from Dealing? 'Clearly she has walked, said Mr. Athel. 'Don't you see the spoils of her progress? 'Oh yes, I have walked, replied the girl.
Rossall, 'do change your place and sit between those two; they never can be next each other without quarrelling. Breakfast drew out to unusual length. Miss Redwing was full of the season's news, and Mrs. Rossall's reviving interest in such vanities scarcely affected concealment. Mr.
'I've been a vegetarian for a month, was the reply. 'You don't mean it? 'Most strictly. No eggs are not permitted; only the feebler school allows them. You can't think how much better I have been in body and mind since I adopted the new diet. 'But Whatever train did you start by? pressed Mrs. Rossall. 'Half-past six. I never can sleep these short summer nights.
'You are tired, I am afraid, Mrs. Rossall said, 'in spite of your sleep in the hammock. The first day in the country always tires me dreadfully. 'Yes, I suppose I am, a little, murmured Beatrice. 'Not too tired, I hope, to sing, said Wilfrid, coming from his couch in the corner to a nearer seat.
Rossall had taken an egg, but, after fruitlessly chipping at the shell throughout this conversation, put down her spoon and appeared to abandon the effort to commence her meal. Presently she broke silence, speaking with some diffidence. 'I really think I will go to town with you, Philip, she said. 'I want some things you can't very well get me, and then I ought to go and see the Redwings.
There was really no need, said Mr. Athel, that she should transfer herself immediately to the country, just when everybody was well settled in town. But Mrs. Rossall preferred to go; she was not sure that the juncture had not some connection with her own spiritual life. And she maintained, on the whole, a seemly cheerfulness. Mr. Athel was an Egyptologist of some distinction.
'But it will be London through the winter. You haven't told me much about London; but then you were there so short a time. 'But I saw much. Mrs. Rossall could not have been kinder; for the first few days it was almost as if I had been a visitor; I was taken everywhere. 'I should like to see London before I die, mused her father. 'Somehow I have never managed to get so far.
Rossall said, it was a distinct advantage to have in the house a governess whom one could in many respects treat as an equal, yet there was naturally a limit, in this as in all other matters. We have not yet, either in fact or in sentiment, quite outgrown the social stage in which personal hiring sets on the hired a stigma of servitude. Mrs.
Rossall said in one of her earliest conversations with Emily; it was pleasantly put, and truer than it would have been in the ease of many instructresses. The twins were not remarkably fond of their lessons, but in Emily's hands they became docile and anxious to please. She had the art of winning their affection without losing control over them; had Mrs.
Her own gaze had a beautiful solemnity, a devout admiration, of which it was impossible to doubt the genuineness; Beatrice, observing it, smiled very slightly before turning away again. A quarter of an hour after, Emily withdrew. Mrs. Rossall played a little, and talk of an idle kind followed.
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