"
"They may have plenty of stuff, and the plan may be as plucky as you
like, Joseph," replied his excitable little wife. "I am quite willing
to admire it in the abstract, but I am quite determined, if I have any
influence whatever, to prevent them carrying it through."
Then she went off to Miss Martineau, invading the schoolmistress in
the sacred hour when she was engaged with her pupils. Mrs. Ellsworthy
carried Miss Martineau away from her school, and shutting the door of
that lady's little parlor, clasped the governess's thin hands, and
poured her troubles into her ears.
"Joseph calls it plucky," said Mrs. Ellsworthy at the end of her
narrative.
But Miss Martineau's face was perfectly aghast.
"Plucky!" she ejaculated. "Dear Mrs. Ellsworthy, pardon me, but your
husband is a man--what can a man know about the intricate workings
which go on within the breast of a perverse girl? Plucky!--I call it
wicked--I call it wanting in all decorum, in all right sense. Primrose
Mainwaring has disappointed me deeply; she showed undue temper when I
spoke to her here the other day--oh yes, this thing must be prevented
by main force, if necessary."
Miss Martineau's pupils could not imagine what was the matter with her
that morning.
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