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Miss Garth announced that the elder Miss Vanstone had, a week since,
accepted an engagement as governess, subject to the condition of joining
the family of her employer at their temporary residence in the south
of France, and of returning with them when they came back to England,
probably in a month or six weeks' time. During the interval of this
necessary absence Miss Vanstone had requested Miss Garth to open all her
letters, her main object in making that arrangement being to provide
for the speedy answering of any communication which might arrive for her
from her sister. Miss Magdalen Vanstone had not written since the middle
of July--on which occasion the postmark on the letter showed that it
must have been posted in London, in the district of Lambeth--and her
elder sister had left England in a state of the most distressing anxiety
on her account.
Having completed this explanation, Miss Garth then mentioned that family
circumstances prevented her from traveling personally to Aldborough
to assist Mrs. Lecount's object, but that she was provided with a
substitute; in every way fitter for the purpose, in the person of Mr.
Pendril. That gentleman was well acquainted with Miss Magdalen Vanstone,
and his professional experience and discretion would render his
assistance doubly valuable.
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