It is not mere curiosity, I assure you.

In fact, curiosity has nothing on earth to do with it.

A governess may be a very useful or a very useless person; but she may also be about the most pernicious inmate imaginable.

She may teach you a bad accent, and worse manners, and heaven knows what beside.

Send the housekeeper, my dear, to tell her that I am going to see her.' 'I had better go myself, perhaps,' I said, fearing a collision between Mrs.
Rusk and the bitter Frenchwoman.
'Very well, dear.' And away I ran, not sorry somehow to escape before Captain Oakley returned.
As I went along the passage, I was thinking whether my dress could be so very ridiculous as my old cousin thought it, and trying in vain to recollect any evidence of a similar contemptuous estimate on the part of that beautiful and garrulous dandy.