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with Magdalen. She had induced them to submit to the regulation of their studies with her pretty much as if she had been Mrs. Best, looking up

ter connected, better educated step-daughter, a sort of alien element, exciting jealousy by her companionship t

ll sisterly confidence with "Sister," even when a sort of grudging gratitude was extracted, and Agatha had been quite old enough to imbibe an undefined antagonism, though, being a sensible girl, she repressed th

ir father, not only in features, but in little touches of gesture and manner. She longed to pet them, and say, "Oh, m

to Oxford without any

's dramas, or in evening games. Only "Sister" would play unreservedly with her, unaware or unheeding that this was looked on as keeping up the métier of governess. Indeed, Thekla's reports of schoolroom murmurs and sneers about the M.A. had to be silenced. Peace and good will could best be guarded by closed ears. Yet, even then, Thekla missed child companions

th prudent use of it, avoiding the worst parts of the road, to be at early celebration at St. Andrew's, and get to

, of St. Kenelm's, and his mother, Lady Flight, who sat next to Magdalen, and began to talk eagerly of the designs for the ce

state, longing to hear whether the promising young artist was really Hubert Delrio, and hoping, while she believed that she feared, that she should blush when she heard his name. However, she did not, though Mr. Flight unfolded his rough plans for the frescoes, which were to be of virgin and child martyrs, Magd

hours of services displayed at the door, and feeling as if she had attained dr

e was something that did not quite accord with Magdalen's ideas of the best taste; so that when they went o

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good place for health. They found a miserable little corrugated-iron place, called the Kennel Chapel, and

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edit. He had a Fortunatus' purse, and was a spoilt child-not in the bad sense-but with an utterly idolising mother, and he tried a good many exp

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Flight's. They are both relations of his mother, and are really one of his experiments-fancy names and fancy rules, of course. I believe the young one wanted to call herself Sister Philomena, but that he could not stand. So

possible while a missionary memoir was being read aloud, but the history of Mother Constance, once Lady Herbert Somerville, but then head at Dearport, and founder of the Daughter Sisterhood at Carrigaboola. To the Merrifields it was intensely interesting, and also to Magdalen; but all the time she could see demonstrations passing between Paula and Sister Mena, a nice-looking girl, much embellished by

esdays and Fridays, the one in the morning, the other after dinner. It was possible to go to St. Andrew's matins at ten o'clock before the drawing class, and to St. Kenelm's at five, after the music was over. Magdalen, whenever it was possible, went w

brother Wilfred, who was in course of "cramming" with a curate on his way to his tutor, and Vera found in casual but well-cultiv

Sisters and asked them to tea at the Goyle, and there had come to the conclusion that Sister Beata was an admirable, religious, hardworking woman, of strong opinions, and not much cultivated, with a certain provincial twang in her voice. She had a vehement desire for self-devotion and consecra

ro to both, and Mena knew little beyond the horizon of St. Kenelm's, but she and Paula were fascinated with one another; and Magdalen saw more dange