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When the morning lessons were over, Carmina showed the priest’s letter to Miss Minerva. The governess read it, and handed it back in silence. “Have you nothing to say?” Carmina asked. “Nothing. You…
The ordinary aspect of the schoolroom was seen no more. Installed in a position of temporary authority, the parlour-maid sat silently at her needlework. Maria stood by the window, in the new charact…
The next day—the important Tuesday of the lecture on Matter; the delightful Tuesday of Teresa’s arrival—brought with it special demands on Carmina’s pen. Her first letter was addressed to Frances. I…
The mind of the clerk’s master had been troubled by serious doubts, after Carmina left his house on Sunday. Her agitated manner, her strange questions, and her abrupt departure, all suggested to Mr.…
Mrs. Gallilee’s page (attending to the house-door, in the footman’s absence) had just shown Benjulia into the library, when there was another ring at the bell. The new visitor was Mr. Le Frank. He ap…
The clock on the mantelpiece struck six. Zo, turning suddenly from the window, ran to the sofa. “Here’s the carriage!” she cried. “Teresa!” Carmina exclaimed. Zo crossed the room, on tiptoe, to the…
THE first signs of reviving life had begun to appear, when Marceline answered the bell. In a few minutes more, it was possible to raise Mrs. Gallilee and to place her on the sofa. Having so far assis…
The slander on which Mrs. Gallilee had reckoned, as a means of separating Ovid and Carmina, was now a slander refuted by unanswerable proof. And the man whose exertions had achieved this result, was …
Even in the welcome retirement of the school-room, Mr. Gallilee’s mind was not at ease. He was troubled by a question entirely new to him—the question of himself, in the character of husband and fath…
It was past the middle of the day, before Mr. Le Frank paid his promised visit to Mrs. Gallilee. He entered the room with gloomy looks; and made his polite inquiries, as became a depressed musician, …
