From: Blanding G. <sa...@sc...> - 2010-03-27 14:27:32
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Ll not be able to give you all the attention I should like to; but we can but do our best, and this seems the best plan I can think of. I cannot very well manage to have a governess to you, and there is no school nearer than Gorley, and that is not only four miles away, but a school I do not approve of. So, at any rate, we will try this plan for the present." Esther got up and stood by Miss Charlotte, her colour coming and going, her fingers playing nervously with her pinafore. "I--I think you are too good to us, Cousin Charlotte," she said huskily, speechless almost with nervousness, but determined to say something of what was in her heart. "I--I don't know how to thank |