Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins
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under your roof. Miss Carmina is to have the services of the best
masters, in finishing her education." "Certainly!" cried Mrs. Gallilee, with the utmost fervour. "And the use of a carriage to herself, whenever she may require it." "No, Mr. Mool! _Two_ carriages--in such a climate as this. One open, and one closed." "And to defray these and other expenses, the Trustees are authorized to place at your disposal one thousand a year." "Too much! too much!" Mr. Mool might have agreed with her--if he had nor known that Robert Graywell had thought of his sister's interests, in making this excessive provision for expenses incurred on his daughter's account. "Perhaps, her dresses and her pocket money are included?" Mrs. Gallilee resumed. Mr. Mool smiled, and shook his head. "Mr. Graywell's generosity has no limits," he said, "where his daughter is concerned. Miss Carmina is to have five hundred a year for pocket-money and dresses." Mrs. Gallilee appealed to the sympathies of her son. "Isn't it touching?" she said. "Dear Carmina! my own people in Paris shall make her dresses. Well, Mr. Mool?" |
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