4/5 I put her next the clock-room--she'll hear the hours betimes, I'm thinking. The great long nose and hollow cheeks of her, and oogh! such a mouth! I felt a'most like little Red Riding-Hood--I did, Miss.' Here honest Mary Quince, who enjoyed Mrs.Rusk's satire, a weapon in which she was not herself strong, laughed outright. She's very agreeable--she is, just now--all new-comers is; but she did not get many compliments from me, Miss--no, I rayther think not. I wonder why honest English girls won't answer the gentry for governesses, instead of them gaping, scheming, wicked furriners? |