The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17
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Published by Special Arrangement
BY
M. F. THEED.
Copyright, 1901, by VI. r. Thced.l

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laughing devil in her eyes challenged him
TO the combat. But he had no intention
OF hghting. He used TO say to himself
mat he had married a spoiled child with
MS eyes open, and he must make allow
ances.
/ KNOW he safr. I'm sorry she want
ed Furnishing. She seems TO be always
wanting Tin perpetual disgrace. 1t is
pad Tor her, and it must be painful for
YOU L have been thinking it over, and
Il doesn't seem fair TO either Of you. 1t
is nigh time she had a governess-.'
I'm not competent to teach her-is that
what you mean?'
We'll, yes, in a sense" he returned. with
provoking sang-froid. You've not been
trained TO teach, which makes 1T hard
work for you-and for the instrument you
have to practice upon. Besides. were you
ever so well UP to it, you haven't the time,
and there is no necessity
one for me and two for Dolly she re-
torted ~provokinsly. But 1 haven't the
slightest objection" Then. with a sud
den inspiration, born of the jealousy which
was her besetting sin. she. added: .'You
have the suitable person in your eye-is
that it,"
No." he said, quietly. II have not, but L
don't apprehend much difficulty in finding
her. The market is only too full of poor
ladies'"
There the subject dropped. Evelyn remem-
bering possibly that but for Enderby she
might herself IA made one of the num-
Der. Her husband, however, was in earn
est, and almost before she knew where she
was. as she remarked afterwards to her
most intimate friend, she found herself
interviewing a young lady who was on the
point of leaving the cOnvalescent home, to
which he acted in the capacity of honorary
physician.
Il told Miss Wells exactly what YOU
wanted" he said, land she ommen
Mademoiselle Dupuis without a moments
hesitation. She is not as foreign as her
name would lead you to suppose. Her
father was of French extraction-he had a
sugar plantation out in one of the West
Indian islands which was brought to grief
by the cultivation of beet root elsewhere
but the mother was English. The girl
speaks both languages perfectly and she is
musical. She has made herself so pleasant
at the home and been so helpful that her
time has been extended. and if Miss Wells
could have kept her altogether as an as
sistant she would"
"Oh, well-she can come and see me, 1
SUPPOSE Mrs. Enderby replied carelessly.
Il don't believe in other peoples paragons
as a rule, but it would be nice for Dolly
to pick up F~rench-with a good accent, that
is to say"
Her accent may be anything-good or
bad-I can't answer for it. Tobego isn't
Paris, as 1 needn't remind you" the doctor
observed dryly. Neither is Chaplain" he
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tie weaknesses did not jar upon him so
much. Sometimes he wondered he had not
detected them before he married her. If
only the merciful blindness of first love
survived the close intimacy of welded life.
In justice to Mrs. Enderby it must be al
lowed she was quite charming in her recep-
ton of the girl when she did come. True,
the latter's manner was all in her favor
gentle, dignifed. self-possessed. Her dark
eyes met her hostess's so frankly and her
voice was so fresh and sweet. Her eyes
and her voice and her carriage of her slight
fgure-these were her points certainly;
she was not what one would call pretty.
She was an orphan and she had not many
friends in England, and she loved children,
she said. The upshot of the conversation
was that she was engaged-conditionally, of
course-and that Dolly was had in to after
noon tea and took to" her at once.
Within a week of her coming into it it
seemed to them all as though there could
scarcely have been a time when she was
not one of them. 1t was not only that she
had a gift for teaching, but that she was
clever in ever so many other ways and
ready to let every one about her benefit by
the cleverness.
Evelyn was one of those women who are
always -1ddling with their Clothes, without
a notion how they are to be made becom-
! ing to them-full of suggestions. but quite
unable to carry them out; and Enderby,
when he caught her closeted in her bed
room with Mademoiselle Dupuis, with a
general turnout of her wardrobe going on.
and noted the radiancy of her expression,
needed no telling that. should things go on
as they had begun, the governess had come
TO stay. Even Susan condescended. as the
DAYS went on, TO be instructed in various
small breakfast dishes and dainties by the
newcomer, and-best of all-there was no
wailing or weeping on the child's part-no
constant complaint on the mothers.
Enderby said to himself a hundred times
that he ought to have arrived at the
source of his wife's ~fretfulness months be-
fore. She had been overdone; but then,
had any one told him she would let another
person arrange the table and the flowers,
and take so much upon herself in a variety
of ways. he would not have believed it.
Nor would she, but that Mademoiselle, as
they called her, having done the things, ef-
faced herself. and was very rarely, save in
attendance upon Dolly. seen by anybody.
She had the tact to see that she was better
in the background, and. in any case, she
preferred it.
~ do ask her TO come in when we have
people, L have asked her over and over
again. Evelyn protested to her husband.
ut is not that she is shy. she is proud-too
proud TO get to be known as Dolly's gov
! erness-as anybody's governess."
And. for once. Mrs. Enderby was right.
Josephine Dupuis was very proud. Even in
her resolve to do her duty to the outside
If POSSIBLE. to exceed it-there was pride
the determination TO give such good meas
ure that the obligation should not be upon
her side. She was fond of Dolly, and she
liked. without particularly respecting, Mrs.
Enderby. The doctor she both liked and re-
spected: but she did not want their friends.