The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-29

10 WHOm 90 you reI6r! What system
do you use in the study of languagesp
What method do you employ in teach
ing music, and in drawing and water
color? Give me your answers as expe-
ditiously as possible. The train starts at
II :45; the carriage should be here at
this moment. I am going to Montreal
for a 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
glance
Every cloud has its silver lining, and
the compensation of an incessant talker
is the meager opportunity afforded to
the respondent for any gushing re-
dundance of self-betrayal or after-re-
pented confidence. II Mrs. Edgeley had
been less absorbent of the situation,
Amy would have Jared worse. For,
having named her school, adding nery-
ously, s. And my teachers were fond of
me, and. having, with what seemed to
herself happy inspiration of the mo-
ment, referred for personal qualifica-
tions to her brother and the family
physician, and alluding rapidly to mod
| ern languages, with a.yague sprinkling
of Pendergrast, Otto, Ollendorff, Lee
gendre, and, with some sprightliness,
asserted that her music teacher had
| taken finishing lessons from Tmm, and
used both Bertini and Muller, and her
| drawing-master studied in Paris, 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 partners
gown, or dashing through the window
sash, as no teacher before could ever
do, her resources of self-recommenda-
ton subsidized. Inquiry beneath the
surface might perhaps have proved
/ fatal.
But Mrs. Edgeley interposed. Sand
our cook has given us warning. 'Tis q
pity, for, although she has fiery tenn
per, she pleases brother. With difficult
| ty have persuaded her to stay month.
The waitress, too, expresses dissatisfac-
ton; the seamstress. I think, is more
| reliable; but altogether the household
is in state particularly untitled to be
managed by mere child like my niece
Martha, who, however, is head of the
house, and you will call her Miss Mar
tha, 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 I had better
engage You for one month ; provided, Of
course, that your credentials
The cab is at Che door, mem, and
says he's late, and must hurry up; and
-oh! here is Mr.. Rainor himself.''
/ And gentleman entered in some
haste, merely saying. as he was present.
ed to Miss Jennings, $ i will see you in
q few moments and hurried his sister
to the carriage, she all the way endeav
oring to impress upon him how very
unfavorable an opinion she had formed
of the capacity of the new governess
"to be engaged only for q month, yor
know; and it was necessary to have
some one at once -
4 Her last act, as the cab drove of, was
! to thrust her head through the window
! with an expression of dire solemnity
and say, with groan, :" Brother, we'v'
gone through the woods to pick up TIL
crooked sticks at last"
Mr.. Rainor returning to the parlor
supposing that his sister had arranged
all preliminaries, only said, How sool
can you come, Miss Jennings?"
"To-morrow morning, if you like,
answered Amy.
"Let it be, then, by 10 o'clock, 81
that may present my little daughter
J and see you established before go dow
town.
"Just what you might have expects
J from such willful girl said Amy
} sister-in-law to her husband, who wa
petrifed with astonishment to learn tina
j his pretty, sprightly sister, who scenes
to him s all smiles," and who, titus
out of school" )" had been received mos
lovingly on his part into his affiuer
r home, had engaged to "go as govern
3 ess.n
at is girlish freak" he said; .. 8.
: can not consent to it, But Amy shocl
: ed him into acquiescence by q tempe'
. tuous outpouring of her story {
7 homesickness and unhappiness; and q
) though he was sorely puzzled to cor
: ceive how his wife could have bee
5 cruel to Amy, or rather how Amy coul
: have imagined her to be cruel, he final
b considering chat the engagement WI
( only for a month, and. Mr.. Rainor hal
8 pened to be known to him as one Of Il
most estimable Of citizens-gave his r
j, luctant consent, saying to his wife, G.
2 ressingly, g She viii come back to u
! Matilda, at the end of the month, qui
|. cured of her girlish homesickness. !"
d So Amy appeared the next mornir
= by 10 o'clock in the breakfastrroom
Il Mr.. Rainor, and was presented to b
y little daughter.