Excerpt: ...pleasantly that perhaps it was sometimes so. "Now my son," Madame Carter said, confidentially, "is a man of scrupulous honour. But he is capable of placing a young woman, and"-she bowed graciously-"a beautiful young woman, in a very false position! I confess that if I were in that young woman's place, I should resent it. I should feel-" "If you mean me," Harriet said, interrupting the smooth, innocent old voice, "I assure you that I do not feel my position here at all false-" "She always gets me wild, and gets ...
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Excerpt: ...pleasantly that perhaps it was sometimes so. "Now my son," Madame Carter said, confidentially, "is a man of scrupulous honour. But he is capable of placing a young woman, and"-she bowed graciously-"a beautiful young woman, in a very false position! I confess that if I were in that young woman's place, I should resent it. I should feel-" "If you mean me," Harriet said, interrupting the smooth, innocent old voice, "I assure you that I do not feel my position here at all false-" "She always gets me wild, and gets me talking," Harriet added to herself, with anger at her own weakness, "but I can't help it!" And aloud she finished, "I am Nina's companion, and in a sense, housekeeper-" "Pilgrim is housekeeper," Mrs. Carter corrected, Miss Pilgrim, a one-time maid, was really Mrs. Bottomley, and had been manager below stairs for a long time. "There are things Pilgrim cannot do," Harriet suggested. "I feel myself the difficulty of explaining your position here!" said the old lady, raising both hands and arms in an elaborate gesture of deprecation, and smiling kindly. "You put me in a false position, too!" But Harriet had now reached the point she always did reach, sooner or later, in these talks with Madame Carter, the point of mentally pitying the old lady, and recollection that after all her mischievous tongue could do no real harm. "You will have to discuss that with Mr. Carter, of course!" It was always ace of trumps, and Harriet only blamed herself for ever beginning a conversation with anything else. Now she retired from the field with all honours, forcing herself to dismiss the unpleasant memory the instant she was out of reach of Madame Carter's voice. But the old lady fumed for an hour, and took up the subject with her son when he came dutifully in to take her down to dinner. "Ida feels as I do," she said, when Mrs. Tabor, charming in blue, joined them on the way downstairs. Richard felt a sensation of anger. It was poor taste to involve a...
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