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It is certain that whatever hopes Mr Tebrick had of Mrs Cork affecting his wife for the better were disappointed She grew steadily wilder and after a few days so intractable with her that Mr Tebrick again took her under his co Mrs Corkdown the sleeves of a blue silk one of Mrs Tebrick's and tri it with swan's down, and directly she had altered it, put it on hera mirror would have her admire the fit of it All the time she waited on Mrs Tebrick the old woh she were a baby, and treated her as such, never thinking perhaps that she was either the one thing or the other, that is either a lady to who her own, or else a wild creature on ords asted But though at first she submitted passively, Mrs Tebrick only waited for her Nanny's back to be turned to tear up her pretty piece of handiwork into shreds, and then ran gaily about waving her brush with only a few ribands still hanging from her neck

So it was ti her oay) until Mrs Cork would, I think, have tried punishing her if she had not been afraid of Mrs Tebrick's rows of white teeth, which she often showed her, then laughing afterwards, as if to say it was only play

Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses anddress either, but tearing and ripping the enough to dress a doll in On this, Mr Tebrick, who had let the old woement to see what she could make of her, took her back under his own control

He was sorry enough now that Mrs Cork had disappointed him in the hopes he had had of her, to have the old woh inand , but still he was anxious since his secret was in her keeping, and the more now that she had tried her hand with his wife and failed For he saw that vanity had kept her mouth shut if she had won over her rown by getting her oith her But now that she had failed she bore herwon over, or at the best was becoht very readily blab