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GOVEIINESSING. 397 GOING A
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think Mrs . M . should have sent word to the " lady resident" that the mi address les might I _Tbe put changed myself ? into The the next first place omnibus on m I y see list going is two to
reach the City home away , and , at so about last . seven It is o useless ' clock p describing . m ., weary each , faint day , an when d din all nerless were ,
all pretty the , much Scholastic the same Agents . Nothing , I advertised but disappointment in " The Times Occasionall . , " I wrote and the of to
_" Church of England Magazine . " No answers _^ y , had course never , I did been find " the out lad " and y in town nobody , but would the result try me was . the Nobod same y -. felt I
for me either . Oh , the , hard pitiless women I became acquainted with ! Not hard and pitiless to others perhaps , but I was a
govern " You ess do , and not oh look , so strong very young " said and one timid " you . look weighed down _,
,, with ain indeed trouble " , I " said glancing injudiciousl from , head as to it foot at d my far slender the rep fi ly gure appalled . " I
,, y prove , me . "Ah like , then that I once am sure before you First would she not lost suit her mother me , for I d had then a
her governess fatherand then the little propert . y that was lefb her . , After this she away reall . " y How , seemed my heart so fall yearned of grief towards , that I was that the obli orp bell ged han to girl send , as her the
then heart statel Once y bounde lad , I y met must conclude d with a reall lad joy y d b the come , y as appointment interview she and said spend after by in ring a a long the long ing Cit day conversation y , with and my . us downcast .: soon " Well ; it
would , you be so disagreeable y to come to a strange house . " I had returned home and was gailchatting over a cup of tea , when the
postman ' s knock startled me . y Tremblingly I took the letter handed to me . Was it something good at last ? No , alas , no ! " Mrs . A .
presents no more . her I never comp ¦ liments fainted to in Miss those C days , and . begs I put to the decline epistle " — in I saw the
fire . ' , tained Once herself too I visited and her a statel husband y lad for y in a full Belgrave hourby Square asking , who all enter sorts
of likely and unlikely questions about my father , and mother , my brothersmy sistersmy friends and connectionsconcluding with
most particular , enquiries , respecting the school where , I finished my educationand commanding her obedient spouse to take down the
address of , " my governess . " This good , quiet gentleman followed me to the door , where the footman was in attendance , and giving me
to understand that I was quite certain to be engaged , assured me I should soon hear from his lady . And so I did . That very evening
a little note on pink , scented paper informed me that " Mrs . _——* . begged And once to decline I took , " from etc . the Harley Street Institution , the address
of a lady who resided out somewhere by Hornsey . I do not know quite what the lace was calledI never was there beforeand I . have
p , , never _boeix there since . The conductor of an , omnibus requested , ma .
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Goveiinessing. 397 Going A
GOVEIINESSING . 397 GOING A
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/37/
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