means an unfit setting for the grave beauty of Kalliope's countenance
savour of old times, and partly because there was really much that
promotion had come exactly when she and her nextbrother were at the
minds and manners. They had both been sent to schools where they had
partly foreign extraction, and southern birth and childhood, made it
to a good deal of kindly notice from the officers and ladies of the
to which they had been raised. Their father, likewise, had been a
outcome of high spirit and romance, and who, under discipline,
religious. There had besides been his Colonel's influence on him,
the crushing grief of his death, the young people found themselves in
work, but they could not help feeling the mortification of being.html">being.html">being
themselves at Rockquay, and viewed as on a level with the clerks and
the companionship and intercourse to which they had been used. Mr.
perceived that there was more in them than was usual, was after all
of a gentleman to be free from all airs of condescension even with
to so beautiful a girl as Kalliope. Besides, after a fit of
Alexis drop, only using him for his musical services, and not doing
proposing anything for the younger boys, who would soon outgrow the
place; but there was no one to sympathise with him in his studious
accusation of being 'stuck-up'---music being really the only point of
terms with the young women employed under her. Her severe style of
admired---almost worshipped---by them as the glory of the workshop.
was capable of being a companion to her. Thus the sister and brother
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