but nearer the

, was Miss Principia Crow. She had more than three miles of testimoni

re old, and Miss Principia was still fairly young. Also,

enough to cheat at tennis. She had certificates that reached as far as "trig"-the wonderful sc

anion for Polly, and in a way they had managed all right. Miss Crow pretended to tea

d the loan of a pier-glass from her mother, and thought, as she pretended before it, smiling at herself and sweeping imaginary trains, h

to herself, "What strange authors they do set young people to study now-a-days! Wh

voice, however. No

ion. It is true that in the meantime, though of an exalted race, I am poor, receiving only twelve shillings a week in one of the institutions of trust vulgarly call

donable curiosity, Mrs. Pretend entered

ise in dictation.... "From Milton's Essay on Macaulay!" Miss

make out how they could say that blank verse was really poetry-not, I mean, like 'How doth the little busy' and 'Twin

first we had only called Polly's father and mother "the Pretends" be

a School. She had to think up something that people would believe. You see, Polly's inventions were really too daring-as that after a ye

-took to magnifying Miss Polly Pretend and her governess. I think he actually began to count up his dollars to see if he had really enough money to start Polly Prete

to pretend the least little bit. He would get found out in a moment if he did. But solid as the B

Miss Crow to be governess to your litt

hear a young lady who was going to set up a school next

as a bench of judges and as rich-looking as a jeweler's shop which can afford

then it can't be Lizzie

. Pretend, much relieved

omething like that!" said old Lovell, sc

ery likely. Miss Crow has been educated in a

t at that moment Polly and her governess came out of Parkins

I shall not forget to inform your father and mother that I have seen you-also John the gardener, with whom, I understand, you are keeping company, as they call it. Ah, ha! young people will be young people! Good-by, Pretend! Good-by! Congratulate you on having the daughter of a respectable man in your house. She will teach your little girl to make jams, and her gooseberry-fool will be a marvel, if she is a bit l

tend muttering angrily, "Gooseberry-fool! Gooseberry-fool!" As if he knew very

shook like a fly caught in a spider's web. I'm

ing off Principia for teaching his child deceit! But he calmed down when he thought of the lot of money he owed to old Lovell o

college she had been at, and her mother was a better professor than all the ladies who gave lessons there. And Polly was obliged to learn, too, because h

r college with old Pretend's money

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of Families

end." For neither Polly nor Miss Crow has any fami