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to do?"
"Pray don't be violent! I really cannot bear any display of violence. You should remember that it is scarcely a week since poor mamma was taken from us."
"I don't see what that has to do with it. Miranda hasn't been taken from us; that's the point."
Mrs. Dormer-Smith making no answer, her brother continued, after a moment or two--
"You are fertile in objections, but you don't seem to have any plan to suggest."
"Well, an idea did occur to me. I don't know whether you would like it."
"Like it! Probably not. But I am used to sacrifice my inclinations."
"Well, I thought that you might put May into a school in France or Germany, or somewhere, letting her give lessons in English in return for her board and so on. There are plenty of schools where they do that sort of thing. It wouldn't so much matter abroad, because people wouldn't know who she was. You might tide over a year or two in that way."
Augustus got up from his chair. "My daughter a drudge in a Continental school?" he exclaimed indignantly.
"If you chose a place little frequented by English, I don't think people would know."
There was a short silence. Then Augustus said angrily, "I'll take the girl back with me. She must share my home, such as it is. We will neither of us trouble you or Frederick much longer. I shall start for Ostend by the morning mail to-morrow." And he dashed out of the room emitting a muffled roll of oaths, and jarring the door in a way which made Mrs. Dormer-Smith clasp her forehead with both hands, and lean back shrinkingly in her chair.
But when the morrow came, Captain Cheffington and his daughter did not go to Ostend. When they had got out of sight of the Dormer-Smiths' house, he ordered the cabman to drive to the Great Western Railway Station, and started by an express train for Oldchester.
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