The Career of Katherine Bush

ephew, Gerard Strobridge, who had bee

G. I am expectin

Miss Arnott, Seraphim? I th

ite a new type-she has been a m

-and smiled his whimsical smile. H

t made up her mind not to chuck the Arbe

been unusual

en writing odes

t have if Alice Southerwood had not become a wido

trobridg

nd and say farewell until

left the room just as the butler was

h, Your L

o would take the estimable Miss Arnott's place, he supposed.

please," Lady Garribardine said,

op of hair was twisted tight without the least pretension to express "the look,"-some grey suede gloves-bo

ked Lady Garribardine

was not a trace of nervousness in Katheri

r status in life?" Lady Garribardine felt perhaps

nd my mother are both dead. I have a sister who is a saleswoman at Madame Ermantine's, the o

ave you been at

ore that I kept the accou

ou think you would be capab

competent moneylender's secre

erhap

reux will tell you that I di

all

ne was

ted again. "You mean that you thi

es

. I hoped to find something e

ecause your advertisement was unu

such marks of respect-that is what had deterred her. Liv and Dev often used them, too-to new and prosperously connected clients-

u read

ing brown eyes, which contrasted so unfavourabl

ng the first time and you corrected

e is refined-you did not acquire

per classes who came to borrow money-I had a cockney

you can le

ly stupid peop

not stupi

Mr. Devereux can tell you

ed; she digressed a little

ws agreeable

with them. They do not pretend

-de

-quite faulty as a rule-they know what to pay for-they

most inte

was sile

in which Lady Garribardine was pitiles

ll that I could there, a

you would fin

d-you can learn things wher

how about French

ry came to her of the profound shock tha

e discovered that my pronunciation is rid

d that

and then I heard it spoken-and

you could ov

re in France

ou trav

o Paris for a holiday once-I

lish lit

ve read a great many books. I read us

temper? You are

ng you have got to do it, and put up with orders and manners that

ood definition of

common

to have so

n si

" Lady Garribardine laughe

essed

ow

ters quickly at Livin

re obs

hink

play th

ding the notes-but I have never practised sin

is hop

, terribly littered with all sorts of papers. She dive

these, Miss-er-Bush? I could then

ten in a spidery hand in pencil, "Refuse grac

s clear enough to use, then she sat down and selected

this sort of thing?" Here was a suitable m

ith the coronet in plain

stared into it. She had not been so inter

ough carefully and the first one a

e for Discouraging Polygamy a

r S

nks the field over which it must obviously be spread is too vast for a small contribution to be of much avail, and therefore, while

dear

fait

Bush (Se

er lett

formist Detention and Penit

da

herefore cannot avail herself of the pleasure and honour of visiting your usef

ain,

fait

sh (S

essary and wrote out the envelope-and when all was ready

erused, and then smiled inwardly when L

ps, and put them in that basket to be posted-and-er-you can ring

atherine Bush felt it

testimony of Mr. Livin

e for myself-e

herine Bush followed the servant down the stairs, and soon foun

on past Dorchester House-into the Park. All the leaves were off the trees. T

of her new game wa

is quality. That is, it was beautifully kept and filled with what she guessed from study at the Wallace Collection must be rare and costly furniture.

ens of Lord Algy's world-that was evident. The man she had met on the thresho

men to her. Katherine meant what the French cal

he would have quite a nice figure for her age if she were not all pushed up by those old-fashioned corsets. Why had she such big ears and such red hands for so great a lady? Her rings were buried

lace. She was born to it-I shall have acquired it-we both when

Hyde Park-and turning out of Albert Gate sudden