Lady Betty's governess : $b or, The Corbet chroniclesGuernsey, Lucy Ellen
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Lady Betty's governess : $b or, The Corbet chronicles
Guernsey, Lucy Ellen
Governesses -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Juvenile fiction
Lady Jemima lives in her own house, with her family of orphan maids
about her, and is much loved and respected. Little Catharine—now a fine
tall young lady, is still with her, but she has changed the rest of the
family many times over, and always for their advantage. She is indeed a
most excellent lady.
Felicia is still alive; a sour, discontented woman, rich, but feeling
poor, and always imagining that somebody is leaguing to rob her or
impose upon her. Her first fall in life I do think was when her
husband positively refused to let her put in any claim to my father's
estate, saying that he was rich enough already, and that she ought to
be ashamed to ask for a penny, seeing she had been brought up at my
father's expense. Felicia scolded and sulked, but he was firm, and for
once she met with her match.
Mr. Fowler is dead now, and poor Felicia lives alone, having quarrelled
with all her husband's relations, and not being able to find a waiting
gentlewoman who will stay with her more than a month at a time.
Richard went abroad just at the beginning of the trouble, as tutor to a
young nobleman, and did not return till the restoration, when he took
orders, and is now a useful, unambitious parish-priest in Chester. I
don't think he will ever be a bishop, as I used to dream, and I don't
believe he wishes it. But there is some hope that he wilt have my
father's living at Saintswell, and dwell in the dear old house where we
were all born.
THE END.
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.
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