Jessie
looked so sweet and bright, that when she had gone Miss Ogilvie could
not help exclaiming, "How pretty she is!"
"Yes, and so good-tempered and pleasant. There is something always
restful to me in having her in the room," said Caroline.
"Restful?" said Janet, with one of her unamiable sneers. "Yes, she
and H. S. H. sent me off to sleep with their gossip on the way home!
O mother, there's another item for the Belforest record. Mr. Barnes
has sent off all his servants again, even the confidential man is
shipped off to America."
"You seem to have slept with one ear open," said her mother. "And
oh!" as Janet took off her gloves, "I hope you did not show those
hands!"
"I could not eat cake without doing so, and Mr. Glover supposed I had
been photographing."
"And what had you been doing?" inquired Mary, at sight of the brown
stains.
"Trying chemical experiments with Bobus," said her mother.
"Yes!" cried Janet, "and I've found out why we did not succeed. I
thought it out during the dancing."
"Instead of cultivating the 'light fantastic toe,' as the Courier
calls it."
"I danced twice, and a great plague it was. Only with Mr. Glover and
with a stupid little middy. I was thinking all the time how
senseless it was."
"How agreeable you must have been!"
"One can't be agreeable to people like that.
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