e thrifty mo

f-sister to De

kla. She was pleased with her visitors, and hoped that the girls would feel t

t it is an hones

ll, as I should have expected after all that about

le to drive about the

not out! Sister, do yo

dear, c

, oh! what horns the cows have. I shall be afraid to go near them!

heard the scream and dragged her out, and it would have all been fun and a good story if she had not been so much afraid of the French lady's maid. It is curious how th

?" asked Ve

cannot be less

Vera, returning to the ch

ions, I shall be quite rea

r the schoolroom and

wise?" said Ma

everything. Every one at Filston of m

Aga

t Agath

wh

clever, and wants

nothing at all, I mean," said Magdalen, seeing h

in steam, could she? I

see how that is to be managed, even if it is quite a worthy ambition. But we will t

of rock that enclosed it. Uneducated eyes, she thought, as she slowly man?uvred the pony down the steep hill before coming to

ds and ladies,

were rather ni

e M.A. as Lady Somebody's old governess, and she will fawn u

you meant to

rness of the ancien régime, and how they will introduce her

but there's one that is very low indeed, and St. Andrew's, which is their parish church, was suiting the moderate high church folk;

let you have much pleasure in it. It is jus

it is the church that Hubert Delrio was s

t it! That is, if he and Flapsy have not forgotten all about the i

, for Flapsy really was ver

psy's affections surviving th

r Hu

common sense. I am sure I ho

of them if they had no constancy,

at him as a gentleman, or she won't. She has a position to keep up with all these swells, and he will be only the man who paints the church! I only hope he will not come. There wil

ng from Rockstone to Rockquay, and thence the party walked down for Miss Prescott to make a few purchases, and, moreover, to begin by gratifying Thekla's reiterated entreaty for a

the hours of their services. St. Kenelm's was decided to be a "perfect gem," ornaments, beauty, and

le did they know of "old times" beyond the quarter century of their birth! Poor old Arnscombe might feebly represent them, but even that had struggled out of the modern "dark ages." Magda

You must put up any belongings that yo

t is a nice p

tes? I think we had better have a ta

y we

shed to hear, and she advanced a wicker chair for

do not know how much

ry good to us, and that you had been our

e have of our own that o

N

t in her very great goodness has taken you four fo

Agatha, more warmly, "for fear we might f

he latter as a matter of course and obligation; besides, the sense of it involved a sum in

ent, and your expenses at Oxford can be paid, as well as masters in what may be needful for the others, and an a

ou," war

hink you do, about the future, for yo

a career if I had been a

left you all this property, it would not be a comfortable maintenance divided among four; and yo

said Agatha, wi

ble to do something for yourselves. I can give one of

r Polly would wish fo

ards preparing them, and I can teach Thekla, but I shou

on't believe she will do much in any other line. And Polly-she is very good, and always does her best because it is right, but I don't think anything is any particular pleasure to he

nd sixteen,

ems ever so much o

e had higher marks. She must

warmly. "She never had any ta

ll be good for them, and there will be time to judge what th

oss to her now; but-" Agatha stopped short, remembering that there might

ink him a

nd sometimes has a picture in the Water Colour Exhibition; but I be

ound to mention to "sister" any more than she would to the head mistress, that when staying at Mr. Waring's country house a sort of semi-flirtation had begun with Hubert Delrio, a young man to whose education his father had sacrificed a great

ister" t

good-looking young man, and she could also suspect that the "squeeze of my hand" might be an ordinary shake, and the kneeling before the one he loved best might have been only the customary forfeit. On the whole, it would be better to let things take their

her mind while Magdalen

liant-a cleve

are noticing, but this is only am

cially as probably she

That is just what you will find her. This is

your home

not much nearer together