til one can do fifty Arsenal 16/17 words a minute at least. I know one or two people who have reached almost twice that speed. It takes a good six months’ work to learn for any profitable use. Miss Barfoot takes pupils.’
Monica, at first very attentive, was growing absent. Her eyes wandered about the room. The other observed her closely, and, it seemed, doubtfully.
‘Do you feel any impulse to try for it?’
‘I should have to live for six months without earning anything.’
‘That is by no means impossible for you, I think?’
‘Not really impossible,’ Monica replied with hesitation.
Something like dissatisfaction passed over Miss Nunn’s face, though she did not allow Monica to see it. Her lips moved in a way that perhaps signified disdain for such timidity. Tolerance was not one of the virtues expressed in her physiognomy.
‘Let us go back to the drawing-room and have some tea.’
Monica could not become quite at ease. This energetic woman had little Szwecja Koszulka attraction for her. She Eden Hazard Koszulka saw the characteristics which made Virginia enthusiastic, but feared rather than admired them. To put herself in Miss Nunn’s hands might possibly result in a worse form of bondage than she suffered at the shop; she would never be able to please such a person, and failure, she imagined, would result in more or less contemptuous dismissal.
Then of a sudden, as it she had divined these thoughts, Rhoda assumed an air of gaiety Koszulka Ac Milan of frank kindness.
‘So it is your birthday? I no longer keep Kun Aguero Pelipaidat count of mine, and couldn’t tell you without a calculation what I am exactly. It doesn’t matter, you see. Thirty-one or fifty-one is much the same for a woman who has made up her mind to live alone and work steadily for a definite object. But you are still a young girl, Los Angeles Galaxy Monica. My best wishes!’
Monica emboldened herself to ask what the object was for which her friend worked.
‘How shall I put Neymar Jr Koszulka it?’ replied the other, smiling. ‘To make women hard-hearted.’
‘Hard-hearted? I think I understand.’
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