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‘I am obliged to do something for my living,’ I said; ‘my father is very poor. I hope I may be able to help him a little by and by.’
‘And my father is so ridiculously rich. He is a great ironmaster, and has wharves and warehouses, and goodness knows what, at North Shields. How hard it seems!’
‘What seems hard?’ I asked absently.
‘That money should be so unequally divided. Do you know, I don’t think I should much mind going Boston Bruins Pipot out as a governess: it would be a way of seeing life. One must meet with all sorts of adventures, going among strangers like that.’
I looked at her as she smiled at me, with a smile that gave an indescribable brightness to her face, and I fancied that for her indeed there could be no form of life so dull that would not hold some triumph, some success. She seemed a creature born to extract brightness out of the commonest things, a creature to be only admired and caressed, go where she might.
‘You a governess!’ I said, a little scornfully; ‘you are not of the clay that makes governesses.’
‘Why not?’
‘You are much too pretty and too fascinating.’
‘O, Mary Crofton, Mary Crofton — may I call you Mary, please? we are going to be such friends — if you begin by flattering me like that, how am I ever to trust you Anze Kopitar Pelipaita and lean upon you? I want some one with a stronger mind than my own, you know, dear, to lead me right; for I’m the weakest, vainest creature in the world, I believe. Papa has spoiled me so.’
‘If you are always like what you are to-night, I don’t think the spoiling has done much mischief,’ I said.
‘O, I am always amiable enough, so long as I have my own way. And now tell me all about your home.’
I gave her a faithful account of my brothers and my sister, and a brief description of Dame Parajumpers Gobi Parka the dear old-fashioned cottage, with its white-plaster walls crossed with great black beams, its many gables and quaint latticed windows. I told her how happy and united we had always been at home, and how this made my separation Columbus Blue Jackets Paidat from those I loved so much the harder to bear; to all of which Milly Darrell listened with most unaffected sympathy.
Early the Moncler Vosges Suomi next day my new life began in real earnest. Miss Susan Bagshot did not allow me to waste my time in idleness until the arrival of my pupils. She gave me a pile of exercises to correct, and some difficult needlework to finish; and I found I had indeed a sharp taskmistress in this blighted lady.
‘Girls of your age are so incorrigibly idle,’ she said; ‘but I must give you to piumin Moncler Bulgarie understand at once that you will have no time for dawdling at Albury Lodge. The first bell rings Washington Capitals Paidat a quarter before six, and at a quarter past I shall expect to see you in the schoolroom. You will superintend the younger pupils’ pianoforte practice from that time till eight o’clock, at which hour we breakfast. From nine till twelve you will take the second division of the second class for English, according to the routine arranged by me, which you had better copy from a paper I will lend you for t |
