Volume V Part 49 (1/2)
Onso luxuriously, but was in reality poverty-stricken, eratitude
”Cohter now,” said she, ”I should like to watch her face when she hears it”
”Certainly”
”My dear Sophie,” I said, ”your e of air you would get better, and if you would like to spend a year or two in a good school I will pay the first year in advance”
”Of course, I will obey my dear mother,” said Sophie
”There is no question of obedience Would you like to go to school? Tell o?”
”Yes, my child, if it would please you”
”Then, o very much”
Her face flushed as she spoke, and I knew thatI should hope to hear from her soon
At ten o'clock the next day Jarbe caement
”No,” said I, ”but it is only ten o'clock”
”Yes, but we have twenty o”
”Twenty miles?”
”Certainly, the house is at St Albans”
”It's very strange Pembroke never told me; how did you find out the address?”
”He left it when he went away:”
”Just like an Englishman”
I took a post-chaise, and in three hours I had reached lish roads are excellent, and the country offers a sh the English soil is fertile it will not bear grapes
Lord Pee one, but twenty masters and their servants could easily be accommodated in it
The lady had not yet arrived, so nificent hot-houses; also a cock chained by the leg, and of a truly ferocious aspect
”What have we here, my lord?”
”A cock”