The Angel and the Demon

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. THE GOVERNESS DISMISSED. "How do you like your governess?" inquired a fashionable friend, who ws making a call upon Mrs. Dainty. Mrs. Dainty shook her head and pursed tip her lips in a vulgar way that was natural to her. " Not perfect, of course," said the friend. " No,?not within a thousand miles of perfection." "An American girl, I presume?" "Yes." The lip of Mrs. Dainty assumed a curl of contempt. " Poor American girls are an indifferent set," remarked the lady. "A'n't you afraid that your children will, imperceptibly, imbibe her low habita and vulgar ways of speaking?" " Yes; that is my greatest fear. Already I think I see a change." " I wouldn't keep her an hour, if that were the case," said the lady. " No, not for the fraction of an hour " she added, with emphasis. "I had ulmost as soon see my children vicious as vulgar; for vice may be eradicated, but vulgarity is a stain nothing can polish out." "And, to add to her offence," remarked Mrs. Dainty, " she has assumed an upstart authority which has kept the house in hot water ever since she came into it. The children, and particularly Agnes, will not submit to her rules and exactions." "Why don't you pack her off? I'd do it in less than no time," said the refined acquaintance. " I've about made up my min.d to do it, and in spite of all opposition." " Opposition Who has any right to oppose ?" " That fussy old uncle of mine is always meddling in our affairs,?Uncle John." "Why do you keep him about the house?" "He's my mother's brother," replied Mrs. Dainty. She could have given a better reason; but it would have been at the expense of an exposure of selfishness she did not care to make. " If he were my mother's great-grandfather, he couldn't find harbor in my hou...

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