[The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Chronicle of Barset CHAPTER VI 21/29
"Miss Prettyman," she said, "I have made up my mind that I will go home, if you please." "And why should you go home, Grace? Did I not tell you that you should have a home here ?" Miss Prettyman had weak eyes, and was very small, and had never possessed any claim to be called good-looking. And she assumed nothing of majestical awe from any adornment or studied amplification of the outward woman by means of impressive trappings.
The possessor of an unobservant eye might have called her a mean-looking, little old woman.
And certainly there would have been nothing awful in her to any one who came across her otherwise than as a lady having authority in her own school.
But within her own precincts, she did know how to surround herself with a dignity which all felt who approached her there.
Grace Crawley, as she heard the simple question which Miss Prettyman had asked, unconsciously acknowledged the strength of the woman's manner.
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