They had not been kind to me, you see, though the children were dears most of the time. I was very tempted to wait for them and to tell my employers of my good fortune.
“They were to send a carriage for me,” she said, “and servants. On his guard as he was, he felt his stomach attempt a creditable imitation of a headstand. And he would wager that she knew the effect of that smile on her male victims. Her eyes sparkled with merriment and with mischief. “But close enough to be embarrassing.” She smiled at him to reveal a dimple in her left cheek-not to mention white and even teeth. “It was not quite as you imagine,” she said.
But then, who on hearing of such a reversal in fortune would not be?” “And so,” he said, “having discovered what a great heiress you had become, you were so filled with excitement and the desire to exchange one sort of life for the other that you rushed from your employer’s home in the north of England, carrying only the clothes on your back and a reticule, in order to walk to your new home in Hampshire.
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