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That good lady's head a feeble head, as all her friends admit has been completely turned by Miss Westerfield. My governess has entirely failed to make the children like her. A dreadful temper; I have given her notice to leave my service. Look at that sweet girl and your little granddaughter! If, by any lucky chance, Miss Westerfield happens to be disengaged in the future, Mrs.
Third obstacle, her mother's sister being her mother over again in an aggravated form. People who only look at the surface of things might ask what we gain by investigating Miss Westerfield's past life. We gain this: we know what to expect of Miss Westerfield in the future." "I for one," Mrs. Linley interposed, "expect everything that is good and true." "Say she's naturally an angel," Mrs.
In silence they waited for the return of the carriage, and the appearance of the governess. Pale, worn, haggard with anxiety, Sydney Westerfield entered the room, and looked once more on the faces which she had resigned herself never to see again. She appeared to be hardly conscious of the kind reception which did its best to set her at her ease.
He remained as indifferent to the inviolate claims of the sex as if he had been an old man of ninety. "Did Miss Westerfield say anything about me?" was his next question. Slippery Mr. Sarrazin slid into another refuge: he entered a protest. "Here is a change of persons and places!" he exclaimed. "Am I a witness of the court of justice and are you the lawyer who examines me?
Weak in her French, Catherine," Mrs. Presty pronounced, when the door had closed on the governess; "but what can you expect, poor wretch, after such a life as she has led? Now we are alone, I have a word of advice for your private ear. We have much to anticipate from Miss Westerfield that is pleasant and encouraging. But I don't conceal it from myself or from you, we have also something to fear."
"It does seem hard to recall Miss Westerfield to the miserable life that she has led, and to do it in the way of all others which must try her fortitude most cruelly. At the same time " "Oh, don't spoil what you have said by seeing the other side of the question!" cried his brother "You have already put it admirably; leave it as it is."
"Sydney Westerfield, you are setting the worst possible example to your class. I shall see this man myself. Will you sit down?" Pale already, Sydney turned paler still. She obeyed the word of command to the delight of the girls of her class. It was then within ten minutes of the half hour after twelve when the pupils were dismissed to the playground while the cloth was laid for dinner.
Bellbridge is under suspicion of having caused the death of his wife in a fit of delirium tremens. The unfortunate woman had been married, for the first time, to one of the English aristocracy the Honorable Roderick Westerfield whose trial for casting away a ship under his command excited considerable interest in London some years since.
I only ask leave to satisfy you that I am not quite unworthy of the interest which you have been pleased to feel in S.W." In those sad words, Sydney Westerfield announced that she had completed her education. Presty Presents Herself.
"Waste your time on that," she said satirically, "and see how you like it!" He examined it first with his bleared red-rimmed eyes; then with a magnifying-glass. The only expression of opinion that escaped him was indicated by his actions. He shut up his book, and gloated over the signs and characters before him. On a sudden he looked at Mrs. Westerfield. "How did you come by this?" he asked.
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