They are then brought back to the institution and educated in a superior manner; the girls being qualified as governesses in Russian families, and the boys as artisans in the imperial manufactories.
He thought no end of Harrow, and I'm sure he would let me go to school if you told him what a bother the old governesses are.
Such an unruly, passionate nature as Monica's needs very careful handling, and not one of these governesses has had the tact to manage her.
A few days more, and the huge pile of buildings which constituted the Osmington High School was left in the charge of caretakers, for governesses and pupils alike had scattered in every direction to enjoy the long, summer vacation.
But though the difficulty of finding governesses is great; it must be confessed there is another yet greater, which is the irregularity of parents.
There is so much less opening for private establishments of the kind nowadays, and this applies, I fear, to some extent to governesses too, unless they have been trained in the orthodox modern way.
It would be a very good time for getting out without any one seeing me--no one would fancy it possible that I would venture out in the rain, and all my schoolfellows and the governesses were still at lessons.
They came to an end at last, however, but among the returning governesses and pupils there was no Miss Fenmore.
She looked very pale, her face nearly as white as her hair, and it made me feel sorry, so that I stared at her and forgot to curtsey as we always were expected to do on entering a room where any of the governesses were.
One of the governesses shall do so, and all that you do not actually require must stay in your trunk and be put in the box-room.
Once or twice the idea came to me of going straight to her and telling her how miserable I was, but that would bring in Harriet, and oh, how furious the other governesses would be!
She could only hope the other governesses might be kinder than the one she had seen.
She knew governesses were poor; Miss Overmore was unmentionably and Mrs. Wix ever so publicly so.
She vaguely knew, further, somehow, that the future was still bigger than she, and that a part of what made it so was the number of governesses lurking in it and ready to dart out.
Parents had come to seem vague, but governesses were evidently to be trusted.
She had not had governesses for nothing: what in the world had she ever done but learn and learn and learn?
The governesses attempted to take her away from me in order to conceal their fault; but I was resolved it should be known, and, paying no regard to their clamours, I started to run to the palace.
The governesses had entered all in confusion behind me.
He could not make Lydia keep governessesthat she didn't like.
You see, Mr. Ringrose, I have always had two governesses in the house hitherto.
Hitherto one of the governesses has slept in his room, but now I am going to take the opportunity of putting you there, as I am sorry to say he is a boy who requires firmness as well as care.
The terrified governesses wrung their hands, and were for a time speechless with grief.
With great difficulty she at last persuaded her governesses to allow her to do so, they agreeing on condition that she should keep with them.
I heard in America that the work had been accomplished; the Asylum for Aged Governesses had been erected, and I set my heart upon visiting it during my visit to London.
Since then have the subscriptions for the support of aged governesses been so numerous, and so considerable in amount, that now a better future may be anticipated with certainty.
The treatment of governesses was one of the blots on the Victorian age.
The gibbeting of employers who offered governesses starvation wages continues, but the entries are far less numerous than in the 'fifties.
If proof be required one has only to turn to the novels of the period, in which very few examples will be found of governesses who succeeded in overleaping the barriers of caste and entering the realms of romance.
Her children were placed under the care of nurses and governesses from their birth.
Our first governesses were German; we were taught French first by mother, then by governesses, and later by the French lecturer of the university.
Leo Nikolaevich always himself engaged or found teachers and governesses for them.
While all the time the two real governessessat in the shade outside, and talked in English or German as best they might, the Fraulein understanding Christabel's English the best, as did Christabel the Fraulein's German.
There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End called Westaway’s, and there I used to call about once a week in order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me.
Very few governesses in England are getting £100 a year.
Not three in three thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you have just done.
There never was such a feast provided by any French governess since French governesses began.
You know, governesses never have more than the meanest pittance, just enough to sustain life, and here she is spending her little all on us.
One of the under-governesses asked whether she might take the prince to his mother, and did so.
Do you know of any other governesses continued Mr. Hose?
Oh good morning Madame Antoinette said Mrs. Hose sit down but do you know of any governesses which we could engage?
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