[The Late Miss Hollingford by Rosa Mulholland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Late Miss Hollingford CHAPTER I 7/21
The Miss Sweetmans paid her the greatest deference, and the girls used to peep over the blinds in the school-room at her handsome carriage and powdered servants.
I remember, when a very little girl, presenting myself before Miss Sweetman one day, and popping up my hand as a sign that I wanted to ask a question.
"What is the reason, Miss Sweetman," I asked, "that Mrs.Hollingford makes me think of the valiant woman of whom we were reading in the Bible yesterday ?" But Miss Sweetman was busy, and only puckered up her mouth and ordered me back to my seat. Mrs.Hollingford used to take me on her knee and tell me of a little girl of hers who was at school in France, and with whom I was one day to be acquainted; and a tall lad, who was her son, used to call sometimes with bouquets for Miss Sweetman or sugar-plums for me; but I was never in her house, which I believed to be a palace, nor did I ever see Mr. Hollingford, who was a banker in the city.
After my twelfth birthday I saw them no more.
I missed the periodical appearance of the noble countenance in the parlour.
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