If you ever
see the elder Miss Vanstone, I venture to prophesy that, for the first
time in your life, you will doubt the propriety of following your
father's example.
"She told me her little story, poor thing, most simply and unaffectedly.
She is now occupying her second situation as a governess--and, as usual,
I, who know everybody, know the family. They are friends of my uncle's,
whom he has lost sight of latterly--the Tyrrels of Portland Place--and
they treat Miss Vanstone with as much kindness and consideration as if
she was a member of the family. One of their old servants accompanied
her to Aldborough, her object in traveling to that place being what the
landlady of the hotel had stated it to be. The family reverses have, it
seems, had a serious effect on Miss Vanstone's younger sister, who has
left her friends and who has been missing from home for some time.
She had been last heard of at Aldborough; and her elder sister, on her
return from the Continent with the Tyrrels, had instantly set out to
make inquiries at that place.
"This was all Miss Vanstone told me. She asked whether you had seen
anything of her sister, or whether Mrs. Lecount knew anything of her
sister--I suppose because she was aware you had been at Aldborough.
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