Sir Felix Foy, Bart

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Lyddy's Progress. ISS FINCH had quitted the Ruddocks, and was once more ' in dear Welbeck Street.' Absent, she had highly prized the pleasures and comforts of her grandmother's modest household: returned to it, truth to tell, she resumed something of her old sentiments in regard to it, and again found it dull and unattractive, circumscribing her ambition, cramping her self- importance. Her position as a resident governess certainly had its drawbacks and unpleasantnesses. Yet it carried with it defined authority. As the instructress of the Miss Ruddocks in French and music, she was comparatively a person of consequence?at any rate in her schoolroom. But in Welbeck Street her situation was more equivocal. After all, she was only the granddaughter of a lodging-house keeper: but slightly removed from the menials of the establishment: with no clear understanding as to whether she had any right to appearabove stairs, or anywhere save in the humble regions of the basement, in Mrs. Seeley's most homely little parlour. Among the Ruddocks, without any extravagant conceit, she could consider herself a sort of superior being: albeit, she was bound to force instruction upon most mutinous pupils, and was in receipt of a salary for so doing. At her grandmother's she was conscious that she had, in a degree, sunk down again in the social scale. She had need to console herself with the reflection that she was loved by Mr. Lambert Foy. That was the strong point of her position in Welbeck Street. She was loved by, she would one day be the wife of, Lambert Foy. Thenceforward a vista of security would open itself before her?her worldly welfare?her social status were guaranteed to her. But meanwhile Well, she was not very well content with the meanwhile. It must not be supposed...

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