[My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady Ludlow CHAPTER IX 27/29
Presently, my lady took her to look at a curious old cabinet, which Lord Ludlow had picked up at the Hague; and while they were out of the room on this errand, I suppose the question of remuneration was settled, for I heard no more of it. When they came back, they were talking of Mr.Gray.
Miss Galindo was unsparing in her expressions of opinion about him: going much farther than my lady--in her language, at least. "A little blushing man like him, who can't say bo to a goose without hesitating and colouring, to come to this village--which is as good a village as ever lived--and cry us down for a set of sinners, as if we had all committed murder and that other thing!--I have no patience with him, my lady.
And then, how is he to help us to heaven, by teaching us our, a b, ab--b a, ba? And yet, by all accounts, that's to save poor children's souls.
O, I knew your ladyship would agree with me.
I am sure my mother was as good a creature as ever breathed the blessed air; and if she's not gone to heaven I don't want to go there; and she could not spell a letter decently.
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