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She prided herself on having select taste. She thought it well to assume distant airs to the other inmates of Penelope Mansion Mrs. Dredge she thought quite beneath her notice, Mrs. Mortlock was slightly more tolerated, but Miss Slowcum never really unbent to either of these ladies.
"The young country servant," responded Miss Slowcum, "Sarah Jane, I think her name is oh, well, her judgment need scarcely be depended on. Yes, London is the place of places. I have lived here for years, and I ought to know." "We quite believe you," said Jasmine "don't we, Primrose? we have come up here because we quite feel with you; we are going out after lunch to see the beauties of the city."
Mortlock put her foot in it as far as Miss Slowcum was concerned, for she said 'I'm sorry the girls from the country have departed, and that they found us so disagreeable that they had to do it unbeknown and quiet, for it was a real pleasure for ancient females like ourselves to have young and bonny creatures about us.
Dredge and poor Miss Slowcum too, and, of course, you'll be the heroine, my beautiful sister. I mean to buy some paper, and work away at my novel in the evenings next week; but as we have come up to London expressly to have our education perfected, and our gifts developed, don't you think I ought to be having some lessons in English style? After all, Primrose, I do not think Mrs.
Mortlock placed herself in the most comfortable arm-chair the room afforded, and having secured her victim, began instantly to tyrannize over her. "Now, Miss Slowcum, read up chirrupy and cheerful please. None of your drawling, by way of genteel voice, for me I like my gossip crisp. I will say this of that dear girl Primrose Mainwaring, that she did her gossip crisp."
Seeing that I'm afflicted, and cannot now use my eyesight, I think there might be a little consideration in the small matter of pepper shown to me, but feel as I will I can find it in no way handy. Thank you, Miss Slowcum; sorry to trouble you, I'm sure." "She grows more snappish each day," whispered Miss Slowcum to Mrs.
"It's of all the dazzlings, the most blindingly beautiful," was Poppy's oft-reiterated comment. "Oh! won't I have something to tell them ladies about bye-and-bye! Oh, my! Miss Jasmine, what a neat hat, miss! I don't mind denuding this one now, for I has got a 'at from a West End shop what beats anything that Miss Slowcum wears for gentility."
Miss Mainwaring, Miss Jasmine and Miss Daisy Mainwaring Mrs. Mortlock, Mrs. Dredge, Miss Slowcum. Young ladies, will you seat yourselves at the table?" Mrs. Flint moved to her place at the head of the board; the three girls dropped into seats, and were stared broadly at by Miss Slowcum and Mrs. Mortlock. Mrs.
Alas! however, Miss Slowcum was poor she was very poor, and she was a great deal too genteel to work. The terms at Penelope Mansion were by no means high, and in order to live she was obliged to put up with uncongenial company.
"Oh, lor!" ejaculated Poppy, "I thought me and Miss Jasmine was to stay together it's what I has been looking forward to through all the toils of the work, and the smuts and the Sarah Janes, and the Sarah Marys this morning. It is another biting. Well, London seems to be made up of them. All right, Miss Slowcum, I'll keep behind.
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