Mr Jervis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 36 MR. JERVIS. peeling a niece too ? (How could Mrs. Langrishe possibly divine what the good lady herself had only known within the last few hours ?) Yours is from Calcutta, but mine is all the way from England I And her glance inferred that the direct Europe importation was a very superior class of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 36 MR. JERVIS. peeling a niece too ? (How could Mrs. Langrishe possibly divine what the good lady herself had only known within the last few hours ?) Yours is from Calcutta, but mine is all the way from England I And her glance inferred that the direct Europe importation was a very superior class of consignment; then she added, Other people has nieces too, you seeI And with a magnificent bow she flounced down the steps, bundled into her rickshaw, and was whirled away. Mrs, Langrishe stood watching the four blue and yellow Jampannis swiftly vanishing in a cloud of dust with a smile of malicious amusement. Other people has nieces too, you see I turning to her companions with admirable mimicry. She is not to be outdone I What fun it is I Cannot you fancy what she will be like?Mrs. Brande's niece, all the way from England ? If not, I can inform you. She will have hair the colour of barley-sugar, clothes the colours of the rainbow, and not an ' h' I CHAPTER IV. TUE THREE YOUNG MAIDS OP HOYLE. Ii was true that Mrs. Gordon and her daughters resided in a dull out-of-the-way part of the world; but they could not help themselves. They lived at Hoylo, in the first instance, because it was cheap, and, in the second place, because living at Hoyle had now become second nature oMrs. Gordon, and nothing short of a fire or an earth- quake could remove her. Hoyle is in the south of England, within a stone's- throw of a shingly beach, and commands a full view of THE THREE YOVNG MAIDS OF HOYLE. 27 the white shores of Prance. It is an old-fashioned ham- let, at least fifty years behind the age, ?where the curfew is still sounded, the sight of an orange telegraph envelope is only interpreted as a messenger of death, ?and is cut off from the bustling outer world...