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Miss Murray noent twice to church, for she so loved adle opportunity of obtaining it; and she was so sure of it wherever she showed herself, that, whether Harry Meltham and Mr Green were there or not, there was certain to be somebody present ould not be insensible to her charenerally obliged him to attend Usually, also, if the weather permitted, both she and her sister would walk hoe; she, because she disliked the privacy of it, and enjoyed the coenerally enlivened the firstfroates: near which coe, which lay in the opposite direction, while the highway conducted in a straightforward course to the still h Meltha accompanied, so far, either by Harry Meltham, with or without Miss Meltham, or Mr Green, with perhaps one or both of his sisters, and any gentleht have

Whether I walked with the young ladies or rode with their parents, depended upon their own capricious will: if they chose to 'take' me, I went; if, for reasons best known to thee I liked walking better, but a sense of reluctance to obtrude my presence on anyone who did not desire it, always kept me passive on these and similar occasions; and I never inquired into the causes of their varying whie was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils But when I did walk, the first half of journey was generally a great nuisance to entlereeable to walk beside theht one of them, while they talked over , chanced to fall on me, it seemed as if they looked on vacancy--as if they either did not see reeable, too, to walk behind, and thus appear to acknowledge my own inferiority; for, in truth, I considered ood as the best of theine that I looked upon myself as a mere domestic, who knew her own place too well to walk beside such fine ladies and gentleht choose to have her with them, and even condescend to converse with her when no better company were at hand Thus--I aave myself no little trouble in my endeavours (if I did keep up with theardless of their presence, as if I holly absorbed inobjects; or, if I lingered behind, it was some bird or insect, so duly examined that, I would pursue my walk alone, at a leisurely pace, until my pupils had bidden adieu to their companions and turned off into the quiet private road