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Alice obtained a situation as nursery-governess at sixteen pounds a year. Virginia was fortunate enough to be accepted as companion by a gentlewoman at Weston-super-Mare; her payment, twelve pounds. Gertrude, fourteen years old, also went to Miehet Moncler Takit Suomi Weston, Parajumpers Männer UGO Billig where Moncler Virgile Suomi she was offered employment in a fancy-goods shop — her payment nothing at all, but lodging, board, and dress assured to her.
Ten years went by, and saw many changes.
Gertrude and Martha were dead; the former of consumption, the other drowned by the overturning of a pleasure-boat. Mr. Hungerford also was dead, and a new guardian administered the fund Duvetica Naiset Febedue Suomi which was still a common property of the four surviving daughters. Alice plied her domestic teaching; Virginia remained a ‘companion.’ Isabel, now aged twenty, taught Island Landslagsdrakt in a Board School at Bridgewater, and Monica, just fifteen, was on the point of being apprenticed to a draper at Weston, Colorado Rapids Drakt where Virginia abode. To serve behind a counter would not have been Monica’s choice if any more liberal employment had seemed within her reach. She had no aptitude whatever for giving instruction; indeed, had no aptitude for anything but being a pretty, cheerful, engaging girl, much dependent on the love and gentleness of those about her. In speech and bearing Monica greatly resembled her mother; that is to say, she had native elegance. Certainly it might be deemed a pity that such a girl could not be introduced to one of the higher walks of life; but the time had come when she must ‘do something’, and the people to whose guidance she looked had but n |