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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: 69 CHAPTER XVII. DEFEATED HOPES. Margaret was but a poor, wan, weak creature, scarcely able as yet to bear her own weight, when Lady Aston and the younger girls returned from Brighton. Lady Aston talked of Margaret's " rousing " herself, and recommencing the lessons immediately; but Mr. Brown said? "Impossible for another week at least; and in the meantime she must be well fed, and kindly cared for, and amused, my lady, amused." Lady Aston was astonished at the idea of a governess requiring to be amused. She was accustomed to look upon the article as a kind of knowledge machine, to be set to grind when required; and as regarded its humanity, made of very inferior stuff, only a little better than that required for a housemaid. And now the creature was to be amused, and that without lessons! Atfirst, Lady Aston thought she would send the lady's-maid to sit with Margaret; but then Paget was a very fine lady, and her dignity might be hurt at being requested to sit with the governess: Lady Aston dared not ask her. So with a sudden attack of benevolence which quite took her by surprise, her ladyship decided upon undertaking the task of amusing Margaret herself! Inspired with this bright idea, she bustled into Margaret's room, where the fair wan invalid sat wrapped in a white dressing-gown and supported by pillows, looking as ethereal and as unfit for this rough earth as could possibly be. Lady Aston was startled by the contrast offered by that pure, white figure, to the rouged reflection which had answered her glance in the mirror in her own room a minute before. " Good gracious me, Miss Langley! you look like a ghost! For Heaven's sake, put on another dressing gown! or stay, there's a pink flannel one in my room: you'll look charming in it!" and off went her ladyship ...

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