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Her own set the narrow-minded, the vulgar, the low were the only ones who could claim her, who could touch her, who could have anything in common with her. How terribly shocked Miss Sherrard had been at what she had done.
The girl's eyes were flashing; she was trembling all over. Just when her happiness seemed to be at its height, for Miss Sherrard and Miss Worrick to appear! "Oh, and there's the train!" she cried. "He will be here in a minute; let me see him first. Oh, the train, is stopping, and there he is; I see him at the very end; there he is with his white hair and let me go, let me go!"
It's no doubt true that he's over head and ears in love with the Ranscomb girl, but Lady Ranscomb has set her mind on having Sherrard as her son-in-law. She's a clever woman, Lady Ranscomb, and of course, in her eyes, Hugh is for ever beneath a cloud. That he went to the woman's house at night is quite sufficient."
Elma staggered to her feet. "It is all up, then," she murmured. "I know everything, Elma," said Miss Sherrard. "The knowledge has come to me as a painful surprise. Your aunt has just asked me to give you a testimonial with regard to character. I am bitterly pained to say that I must refuse to do so." "But what does it all mean," cried Mrs. Steward, "and why am I to be kept in the dark any longer?
If she attempts to speak to any girl belonging to Middleton School, with the exception of Alice Denvers, in whose house she is living, that girl holds communication with her at her own peril. Such a girl stands a grave chance of being expelled from the school." Miss Sherrard then descended from her platform, and the usual work of the morning went on.
Steward sailed out of the room, and poor Elma sank down on the nearest chair. "If Miss Sherrard has sent for me she must know something," thought the wretched girl. "Oh! how am I to live through it? She will tell Aunt Charlotte and then all my prospects are over." Meanwhile Mrs.
He found as time went on that it was becoming easier to learn his lessons and easier to remember them when learned, and by that time he had taught himself to command over his thoughts, and when he was struggling through a proposition in geometry he wasn't wondering whether he would beat out Sherrard for the position of regular right end on the second before the season was over.
Sherrard were to marry, and that the announcement would be made in due course. "What a lovely day and what a silent, delightful spot," Sherrard remarked, as he filled his pipe preparatory to walking up-stream, while the girl remained beside the dark pool where sport seemed likely. "Yes," she replied, inwardly wishing to get rid of her companion so as to be left alone with her own thoughts.
"I'll remain here for a little and then go down-stream to the end of our water." "Right oh!" he replied cheerily as he moved away. Dorise breathed more freely when he had gone. George Sherrard had arrived from London quite unexpectedly at nine o'clock on the previous morning.
She recollected the White Cavalier at the ball at Nice, and how she had never suspected him to be the deputy of the King of the Underworld the man whose one hand was gloved. Within half an hour of the departure of her visitor from Scotland Yard, the maid announced Mr. Sherrard.
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