Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-05-01

81 shall be twenty-one in two years"
Too young. Where were you edu-
Gated? What are your qualifications
To whom do you refer? What system
do you use in the study of languages
What method do you employ in teach
ing music, and in drawing and water
color? Give me your answers as ex-
peditiously as possible. The train starts
at II AS; the carriage should be here at
this moment. | am going to Montreal
for month, and am unwilling to leave
my niece alone. We have been singu-
larly unfortunate in the applications
we have received, and / see now at a
glance"
Every cloud has its silver lining, and
the compensation of an incessant
talker is the meagre opportunity afford
ed to the RESPONDENT for any gushing
redundance of self-betrayal or after re-
pented confidence. If Mrs. Edgerly
had been less absorbent Of the situation,
Amy would have Jared worse. For
having named her school, adding nerv-
ously," And my teachers were fond of
me, very fond of me-" and having, with
what seemed to herself happy inspir-
alton of the moment, referred for per-
sonal qualifications to her brother and
the family physician, and abiding rap
idly to modern languages, with vague
sprinkling of Pendergrast, Otto, Ollen-
dorf, Legendre, and, with some spright-
illness, asserted that her music teacher
had taken finishing lessons from Timm,
and used both Bertini and Muller, and
\ n Sf,,I1nH ~,
and finally declared with real warmth
that she loved dancing, and could teach
dancing, she was sure, quite we'll, be-
cause she had taught Jack, the most
awkward boy in the world, to waltz in
the parlor without overturning the
vases, or tangling himself in his part
ner's gown, or dashing through the
window-sash, as no teacher before could
ever do, her resources of self-recom-
mendation subsidized Inquiry beneath
the surface might perhaps have proved
fatal. "A|'f
But Mrs. Edgerly interposed. "And
our cook has given us warning. "ris a
pity, for although she has fiery tenn
per, she pleases brother. With difficult
ty [ have persuaded her to remain n
month. The waitress, too, expresses
dissatisfaction; the seamstress, think,
is more reliable; but altogether the
household is in a state particularly un-
fitted to be managed by mere child
like my niece Martha, who, however. is
head of the house, and you will call
her Miss Martha, please. And need
for the place an experienced person.
But really, as this is the last moment,
and you may be better than no one,
perhaps | had better engage you for one
month; provided, of course, that your
credentials"
''The cab is at the door, mem, and
says he's late, and must hurry up; and
oh! here is Mr.. Rainor himself
And a gentleman entered in some
haste, merely saying, as was presented
to Miss Jennings, 81 will see you in a
few moments" and hurried his sister to
the carriage, she all the way endeavor-
ing to impress upon him how very un-
favorable an opinion she had formed of
the capacity and experience Of the new
governess, "to be engaged only for a
month, you know; and it was necessary
to have some one at once"
Her last act, as the cab drove off was
to thrust her head through the window,
with an expression of dire solemnity,
and say, with a groan, Brother, we've
gone through the woods to pick up the
crooked stick at last"
Mr.. Rainor returning to the parlor,
supposing that his sister had arranged
all preliminaries. only said, chow soon
can you come, Miss Jennirgs?"
Tomorrow morning, if you like"
answered Amy
"Let it be, then, by ten, o'clock, so
that may present my little daughter.
and see you established before [ 60
down town.
"Just what you might have expected
from such a willful girl" said Amy's Sis
ter-in-law TO her husband, who was pet
rifed with astonishment when he learned
that his pretty, sprightly sister. who
seemed to him cali smiles" and who,
"just out of school," had been received
most lovingly On his part into his afflu-
ent home, had engaged to ego as gov
erness."
cit is girlish freak" he said; 81 can
not consent toit." But Amy shocked
him into acquiescence by tempestuous
outpouring other story ofhomesickness
and unhappiness; and although he was
sorely puzzled to conceive how his wife
could have been cruel to Amy, or rath-
er how Amy could have imagined his
wife to be cruel, he fnally-considering
that the engagement was only for
month, and Mr. Rainor happened to be
known to him as one of the most esti-
mable of citizens-gave his reluctant
consent, saying to his wife, caressingly.
81 She will come back to us, Matilda, at
the end of the month, quite cured of
her girlish homesickness. ~
So Amy appeared the next morning
by ten O'clock in the breakfast-room of
Mr.. Rainor, and was presented to his
little daughter.
The child was an angular, awkward
girl, with sharp delicate features and
imm ense black eyes that seemed to be
peering forth from an extremely active
intelligence with suspicious vigilance
that to Amy was really formidable.
g had hoped she would have resem-
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