" "You mean one of the governesses.

" "I don't mean one of the governesses.

She would even open the dance herself with some well-conducted boy, and afterward stroll among the crowd, talking affably to all the company, even to the governesses and nurses, and delighting the parents with the interest which she exhibited in the characters, the growth, and even the names of the children.

They were certainly not the stereotyped opinions current among governesses or even parents somewhat more enlightened than the rest, and evidently she had given much consideration to the subject before she put her thoughts on paper.

Then it's the governesses, who come and have a try at the guests, or most likely in my case they would set their affections on me, and get the reins of government entirely into their hands.

Then she makes a single, almost imperceptible, slip of the tongue: she says, "We had governesses," instead of "I had governesses."

Then she makes a single, almost imperceptible, slip of the tongue: she says, "We had governesses," instead of "I had governesses."

'I shall never learn as much out of these horrid books as poor old Stevens taught me,' she said afterwards, when the gray head was at rest under the sod, and governesses, botany manuals, and hard words from the Greek were the order of the day.

You would say that it will not be any solid consolation to the widow, when the husband is fairly worried into his grave at last,when his daughters have to go out as governesses, and she has to let lodgings,to reflect that while he lived they never failed to have Champagne at his dinner-parties; and that they had three men to wait at table on such occasions, while Mr. Smith, next door, had never more than one and a maidservant.

At a time when private schools were beginning to flourish once more he had been careful to educate Adelaide entirely at home with governesses.

Compared with these efforts, the revelations of English governesses at German courts, which are now finding their way into print, make but a poor show.

The young Shands had generally lived a pleasant life; had gone to school,the eldest son, as we have seen, to the university also,and had had governesses, and ponies to ride, and had been great at dancing, and had shot arrows, and played Badminton, and been subject to but little domestic discipline.

And after that Charlotte and Anne set out on their careers as nursery-governesses.

And she turned her back on the brilliance and the fame and the face of her divinity, and offered herself up in flames as a sacrifice for all the governesses that were and had ever been and would be.

Bell get it even stronger than that; and then, suddenly again, you come on a report on the "Condition of Governesses", palpably drawn up by a third person.

Brocklebank, in his zeal, overdid his part, so the report on Governesses was thrown in to give the whole thing an air of seriousness and respectability.

Still, Charlotte and Anne both took posts as governesses, and eventually formed a plan of starting a school on their own account, their housekeeping Aunt Branwell providing the necessary capital.

In London, a hospital for sick governesses was about to fail, from lack of means and poor management.

They have no harm in them, and Arthurine was doing them good.' 'A whisper to you, Miss Merrifieldthey are going back with me, to be prepared for governesses at Arthurine's expense.

B. Are governesses unknown in those parts?

The Ambleside students usually teach small private classes, or accept posts as resident governesses in families.

Her father is too busy with finance and her mother with social climbing to spare time for their daughter's company, so they leave her to the care of governesses and menials.

Yet she had been a kind and careful mother, and her children ever proved, that surrounded as she constantly was by the fashionable and the gay, she had presided over the education of her daughters, and been more than usually particular in the choice of governesses.

Attached to it are spies and semi-spies, hotel-keepers, hairdressers, tutors, governesses, and employees in Government establishments, such as shipbuilding yards and armament factories.

"People trot out horses and negroes when they wish to purchase; why not governesses?"