Skills-Starters. Young Learners English. Teacher' s Book with Webcode Pack

Anonymous A Stately English Mansion CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The first entrants to Miss Martin's Academy For Young Ladies, as she had decided to call it, proved to be the daughters of a Vicar of a parish once removed from the Colonel's own. The younger, Maude, was fifteen-her sister, Adelaide, being some eighteen months older. 'Dashed tricky business, being daughters of the Vicar, eh?' the Colonel questioned Miss Martin tentatively, though an eager enough look had come into his eye when the two 'young flowers'-as their future teacher had referred to them-had stood somewhat timourously in her presence, and he observing them through a peephole in the wall that had almost overnight been hastily devised. “The daughters of a Vicar, my dear-not your immediate and more local one. Remark that point, for it may have significance. Did I not take the precaution of interviewing him first? His eyes remarked the birch-new, supple and well-soaked-that I had placed of a purpose full in his sight, as you well saw, even as you did my little toy, which you made for me', added Miss Martin coyly. 'He did not ask what it was, either', remarked her listener who had, under her instructions, devised what he thought was indeed a toy ...»