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第12章

FROM MISS EVELYN VANE,IN PARIS,TO THE LADY AUGUSTA FLEMING,AT

BRIGHTON.

Paris,September 30th.

Dear Lady Augusta--I am afraid I shall not be able to come to you on January 7th,as you kindly proposed at Homburg.I am so very,very sorry;it is a great disappointment to me.But I have just heard that it has been settled that mamma and the children are coming abroad for a part of the winter,and mamma wishes me to go with them to Hyeres,where Georgina has been ordered for her lungs.She has not been at all well these three months,and now that the damp weather has begun she is very poorly indeed;so that last week papa decided to have a consultation,and he and mamma went with her up to town and saw some three or four doctors.They all of them ordered the south of France,but they didn't agree about the place;so that mamma herself decided for Hyeres,because it is the most economical.

I believe it is very dull,but I hope it will do Georgina good.I am afraid,however,that nothing will do her good until she consents to take more care of herself;I am afraid she is very wild and wilful,and mamma tells me that all this month it has taken papa's positive orders to make her stop in-doors.She is very cross (mamma writes me)about coming abroad,and doesn't seem at all to mind the expense that papa has been put to--talks very ill-naturedly about losing the hunting,etc.She expected to begin to hunt in December,and wants to know whether anybody keeps hounds at Hyeres.Fancy a girl wanting to follow the hounds when her lungs are so bad!But I daresay that when she gets there she will he glad enough to keep quiet,as they say that the heat is intense.It may cure Georgina,but I am sure it will make the rest of us very ill.

Mamma,however,is only going to bring Mary and Gus and Fred and Adelaide abroad with her;the others will remain at Kingscote until February (about the 3d),when they will go to Eastbourne for a month with Miss Turnover,the new governess,who has turned out such a very nice person.She is going to take Miss Travers,who has been with us so long,but who is only qualified for the younger children,to Hyeres,and I believe some of the Kingscote servants.She has perfect confidence in Miss T.;it is only a pity she has such an odd name.Mamma thought of asking her if she would mind taking another when she came;but papa thought she might object.Lady Battledown makes all her governesses take the same name;she gives ?5more a year for the purpose.I forget what it is she calls them;I think it's Johnson (which to me always suggests a lady's maid).

Governesses shouldn't have too pretty a name;they shouldn't have a nicer name than the family.

I suppose you heard from the Desmonds that I did not go back to England with them.When it began to be talked about that Georgina should be taken abroad,mamma wrote to me that I had better stop in Paris for a month with Harold,so that she could pick me up on their way to Hyeres.It saves the expense of my journey to Kingscote and back,and gives me the opportunity to "finish"a little in French.

You know Harold came here six weeks ago,to get up his French for those dreadful examinations that he has to pass so soon.He came to live with some French people that take in young men (and others)for this purpose;it's a kind of coaching place,only kept by women.

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