A governess, if she were given to falling in love, could hardly perform her duties in life.

No doubt, not to be a governess, but a young lady free from the embarrassing necessity of earning bread, free to have a lover and a husband, would be upon the whole nicer.
So it is nicer to be born to L10,000 a year than to have to wish for L500.

Lady Fawn could talk excellent sense on this subject by the hour, and always admitted that much was due to a governess who knew her place and did her duty.

She was very fond of Lucy Morris, and treated her dependent with affectionate consideration;--but she did not approve of visits from Mr.Frank Greystock.

Lucy, blushing up to the eyes, had once declared that she desired to have no personal visitors at Lady Fawn's house; but that, as regarded her own friendships, the matter was one for her own bosom.