The Golden Calf

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Golden Calf

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“I wonder whether, if I had been ugly and stupid, they would have been a little more merciful to me?’ she said to herself.

Miss Palliser’s ability had been a disadvantage to her at Mauleverer Manor. When Miss Pew discovered that the girl had a knack of teaching she enlarged her sphere of tuition, and from taking the lowest class only, as former articled pupils had done, Miss Palliser was allowed to preside over the second and third classes, and thereby saved her employers forty pounds a year.

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