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ure.] TOUCHIT.--What a woman she was--what a superior creature! LADY K.--A creature--an angel! TOUCHIT.--Mercy upon us! how she and my lady used to quarrel! [aside.] What a temper! LADY K.--Hm--oh, yes--what a temper [rather doubtfully at first]. TOUCHIT.--What a loss to Milliken and the darling children! MISS PRIOR.--Luckily they have YOU with them madam. LADY K.--And I will stay with them, Miss Prior; I will stay with them! I will never part from Horace, I am determined. MISS P.--Ah! I am very glad you stay, for if I had not YOU for a protector, I think you know I must go, Lady Kicklebury. I think you know there are those who would forget my attachment to these darling children, my services to--to her--and dismiss the poor governess. But while you stay I can stay, dear Lady Kicklebury! With you to defend me from jealousy I need not QUITE be afraid. LADY K.--Of Mrs. Bonnington? Of Mr. Milliken's mother; of the parson's wife who writes out his stupid sermons, and has half a dozen children of her own? I should think NOT indeed! I am the natural protector of these children. I am their mother. I have no husband! You STAY in this house, Miss Prior. You are a faithful, attached creature--though you were sent in by somebody I don't like very much [pointing to TOUCHIT, who went off laughing when JULIA began her speech, and is now looking at prints, &c., in next room]. MISS P.--Captain Touchit may not be in all things what one could wish. But his kindness has formed the happiness of my life in making me acquainted with YOU, ma'am: and I am sure you would not have me be ungrateful to him. LADY K.--A most highly principled young woman. [Goes out in garden and walks up and down with Captain TOUCHIT.] Enter Mrs. BONNINGTON. MISS P.--Oh, how glad I am you are come, Mrs. Bonnington. Have you brought me that pretty hymn you promised me? You always keep your promises, even to poor governesses. I read dear Mr. Bonnington's sermon! It was so interesting that I really could not think of going to sleep until I had read it all through; it was delightful, but oh! it's still better when he preaches it! I hope I did not do wrong in copying a part of it? I wish to impress it on the children. There are some worldly influences at work with them, dear madam [looking at Lady K. in the garden], which I do my feeble effort to--to modify. I wish YOU could come oftener. MRS. B.--I will try, my dear--I will try. Emily has
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