The large-featured, smirking phantom, saluting me so oddly in the moonlight, retained ever after its peculiar and unpleasant hold upon my nerves.
'Well, Miss Maud, dear, I hope you'll like your new governess--for it's more than _I_ do, just at present at least,' said Mrs.Rusk, sharply--she was awaiting me in my room.

'I hate them French-women; they're not natural, I think.

I gave her her supper in my room.

She eats like a wolf, she does, the great raw-boned hannimal.

I wish you saw her in bed as I did.