16/25 Meanwhile make all your arrangements." "The village!"-- Theresa put in, with a note of despair this time perfectly genuine. But if I take you away, in my fly I mean, that will give you a position, a standing. It will go far to prevent unpleasant gossip!" Miss Verity's soul looked out of her candid eyes with a positive effulgence of charity. We will treat your going as temporary, merely temporary--in speaking of it both here and at Paulton Lacy. Of course, you might stay with your friends, the good Miss Minetts; but I can't honestly counsel your doing so. |