[A Life’s Morning by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookA Life’s Morning CHAPTER VII 18/42
I won't have this irregularity.
Now tomorrow morning I'll have the table cleared at nine o'clock, and if you're not down you'll go without breakfast altogether, mind what I say.' The threat was such an old one that Geraldine honoured it with not the least attention, but helped herself abundantly to marmalade, which she impasted solidly on buttered toast, and consumed with much relish. 'Now you've got Emily here,' pursued Mrs.Cartwright, turning her attack upon Jessie, 'what are you going to do with her? Are you going to have your lessons in this room ?' 'I don't know.
What do _you_ say, Emily ?' Emily was clearly of Opinion that lessons under such conditions were likely to be of small profit. 'If it were not so far,' she said, 'I should propose that you came to me every other day; I should think that will be often enough.' 'Why, it's just as far for you to come here,' exclaimed Mrs.Cartwright. 'If you're good enough to teach her--great, lazy thing that she is!--the least she can do is to save you all the trouble she can.' 'I've got an idea,' observed Jessie.
'Why shouldn't we have lessons in the garden ?' 'That's just as bad.
Emily 'll have the same distance to walk.
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