Something seemed awry. There were two school-mistresses, one of whom—Miss Klegg—might have
been a first cousin to Miss Miniver, she had so many Miniver traits; there was a
preoccupied girl whose name Ann Veronica never learned, but who worked
remarkably well; and Miss Garvice, who began by attracting her very greatly—
she moved so beautifully—and ended by giving her the impression that moving
beautifully was the beginning and end of her being. ’
‘I have found Mary Remenham’s daughter,’ he repeated. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. But when she was thinking it over in her room that evening vague and baffling
doubts came drifting across this conviction. ”
“You are sure that he asked for me—not for Annabel?”
“Certain,” Courtlaw answered. A stout wooden shutter, opening inwardly, being removed, disclosed a
grating of iron bars. They all stay!”
“And you yourself?”
Brendon laughed. ‘I will do so. “There’s twenty before you,
and Mr. ’”
“Yes?”
“I think—yes, I went on in a pleasing blend of the casual and sotto voce, ‘The
fact of it is, sir, I happen to be your son-in-law, Capes. Tell me
that again. Straitened circumstances would not have mattered; a mother would have
managed somehow.
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