25/28 Eh? She was always careful of this, having lived with gentlefolks. She burned to know if Brother Copas had heard her call Mrs.Royle a bitch. Mrs.Royle (to do her justice) when enraged recked neither what she said nor who overheard. But Mrs.Clerihew, between her lapses, clung passionately to gentility and the world's esteem. |