The Convert (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Convert The tall young lady who arrived fifteen minutes before the Freddy Tunbridges´ dinner-hour, was not taken into the great empty drawing-room, but, as though she were not to be of the party expected that night, straight upstairs she went behind the foot man, and then up more stairs behind a maid. The smart, whitecapped domestic paused, and her floating muslin streamers cut short their aerial gyrations subsiding against her straight black back as she knocked at the night-nursery door. It was opened by a middle-aged head nurse of impressive demeanour. She stood there an instant eyeing the intruder with the kind of overbearing hauteur that in these days does duty as the peculiar hall-mark of the upper servant, being seldom encountered in England among even the older generation of the so-called governing class. "It´s too late to see the baby, miss. He´s asleep.´ ´Yes, I know; but the others are expecting me, aren´t they? Question hardly necessary, perhaps, with the air full of cries from beyond the screen: ´Yes, yes.´ ´We´re waiting!´ ´Mummy promised´ - cut short by the nurse saying sharply, ´Not so much noise, Miss Sara.´ But the presiding genius of the Tunbridge nursery opened the door a little wider and stood aside. Handsome compensation for her studied coldness was offered in the shrill shrieks of joy with which a little girl and a very small boy celebrated the lady´s entrance. She, for her part, joined the austere nurse in saying, ´Sh! sh!´ and in simulating consternation at the spectacle behind the screen, Miss Sara jumping up and down in the middle of her bed with wild brown hair swirling madly about a laughing but mutinous face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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