Her Faithful Knight — page 158: what you’re looking at

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154 Passion and Poetry. had been agreed upon, and the regularity with which it was remitted to her weekly by a young lady coming from a poor little place like Lockhart Cottages. This fee did not include the nurse’s food, “the best of everything,” as Cresswell wrote grudgingly, “and quite a fine lady she is, too, for the waiting on she wants. Still, I suppose she knows her work, and she do take care of poor Miss Phyllis.”’ | Every Saturday evening, upon receiving her salary, Dorothy hurried to the postoffice and forwarded five pounds to Cresswell. Her own expenses she cut down to the smallest possible sum, but, alas, guard every shilling as she would, she found to her dismay that, living as she did alone, the rent of her rooms, the extra charges made by grasping landladies, the necessary tips at the theatre, and unavoidable small expenses, seldom amounted each week to less than thirty-five shillings. And then there were her stage dresses, three in num- ber, the feather fan, and long evening gloves, stipulated for by the manager, and the shoes to match her gown. A cheap and clever little dressmaker had made her dresses ‘on credit, but Dorothy knew her to be a poor and hard- working little woman, and every week she forwarded to her a portion of the eight pound fifteen shillings arranged for as the price of her simple costumes. Whitlock, the agent, had promised that his client, Mr. Darcy, would “meet her in the matter of the price of her dresses,” and the latter had readily promised to do so. But by this time he had either forgotten his promise or was waiting for Miss Knight to refer to it, a thing which she could not bring herself to do. The third week of the tour, therefore, found Dorothy hard at work again with pencil and paint brush, executing flower and figure designs on the chance of selling them, rising very early to take a little much-needed exercise, and COMMC IOS “S (S@)