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Nuttie's Father by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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only person who knows the particulars. He will give me the best
advice.'

And while Miss Headworth, over her evening toilette, was coming to
this resolution in one bedroom, Nuttie, in another, was standing
aghast at her mother's agitation, and receiving a confession which
filled her with astonishment.

'I can't think why that gentleman should go and be so affectionate
all on a sudden, 'quoth Nuttie;' if he is my cousin, and so fond of
you, why couldn't he have come to see us before?'

'Oh, Nuttie, dear, you don't understand why it is so good of him! My
dear, now this has come, I must tell you--you must hear--the sad
thing your mother did. Yes, my dear, I was their governess--and--and
I did not--In short, my dear, I eloped.'

'You, mother! Oh what fun!' cried the girl in the utter extremity of
wonder.

'Nuttie!' exclaimed Mrs. Egremont, in a tone of horror and
indignation--nay, of apprehension.

'O mother--I didn't mean that! But I can't get to believe it. You,
little mother mine, you that are so timid and bashful and quiet.
That you--you should have done such a thing.'

'Nuttie, my dear, can't you understand that such a thing would make
me quiet? I am always feeling when I see people, or they bring their
daughters here. "If they only knew--"'
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