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Fill in the gap: The situation was, ___ Mrs. Wix declared, an extraordinary muddle

to be sure.

Fill in the gap: Then somehow it was brought fully to the child's knowledge that her

stepmother had been making attempts to see her, that her mother had deeply resented it, that her stepfather had backed her stepmother up, that the latter had pretended to be acting as the representative ___ her father, and that her mother took the whole thing, in plain terms, very

hard.

Fill in the gap: There had been times when she had had to make the best

of the impression that she was herself deceitful; yet she had never concealed anything bigger ___ a thought.

Fill in the gap: This conversation had occurred in consequence ___ his one day popping into the

schoolroom and finding Maisie alone.

The sentence is: He came in and out; he professed, in joke, to take tremendous precautions;

he showed a positive disposition to romp.

The sentence is: Her explanation of everything that seemed not quite pleasant--and if her own

footing was perilous it met that danger as well--that her ladyship was passionately in love.

The sentence is: Preoccupied, however, as Maisie was with the idea of the sentiment Sir Claude had inspired, and familiar, in addition, by Mrs. Wix's anecdotes, with the ravages that in general

such a sentiment could produce, she was able to make allowances for her ladyship's remarkable appearance, her violent splendour, the wonderful colour of her lips and even the hard stare, the stare of some gorgeous idol described in a story-book, that had come into her eyes in

consequence of a curious thickening of their already rich circumference.

The sentence is: There she encountered matters amid which it seemed really to help to

give her a clue--an almost terrifying strangeness, full, none the less, after a little, of reverberations of Ida's old fierce and demonstrative recoveries of possession.

The sentence is: They had been some time in the house together,

and this demonstration came late.

The sentence is: This lady, however, had formulated the position of things with an

acuteness that showed how little she needed to be coached.

The sentence is: Heaven

knew she wanted her child back and had made every plan of her own for removing her; what she couldn't for the present at least forgive any one concerned was such an officious underhand way of bringing about the transfer. Maisie carried more of the weight of this resentment than even

Mrs. Wix's confidential ingenuity could lighten for her, especially as Sir Claude himself was not at all ingenious, though indeed on the otherhand he was not at all crushed.

The underlined word is: "Now--just as I am?" She turned with an immense appeal to her

stepmother, taking a leap over the mountain of "mending," the abyss of packing that had loomed and yawned before her. "Oh MAY I?"

The underlined word is: "She's not turned out as I should like--her mother will pull her to

pieces. But what's one to do--with nothing to do it on? And she's better than when she came--you can tell her mother that. I'm sorry to have to say it to you--but the poor child was a sight."

The underlined word is: "There's nothing she hasn't heard. But it doesn't matter--it hasn't

spoiled her. If you knew what it costs me to part with you!" she pursued

to Maisie.

The underlined word is: Her companions of course laughed anew and Mrs. Beale gave her an

affectionate shake.

The underlined word is: Mrs. Beale slowly got up, still with her hands on Maisie, but emitting a

soft exhalation. "Well, if you're glad, that may help us; for I assure you that I shall never give up any rights in her that I may consider I've acquired by my own sacrifices. I shall hold very fast to my interest in her. What seems to have happened is that she has brought you

and me together."

The underlined word is: Mrs. Beale addressed her assent to Sir Claude. "As well so as any other

way. I'll send on her things to-morrow."

The underlined word is: Sir Claude watched her as she charmingly clung to the child. "I'm so

glad you really care for her. That's so much to the good."

The underlined word is: The idea of what she was to make up and the prodigious total it came

to were kept well before Maisie at her mother's.

The underlined words are: That was what she had meant by the drop of the objection to

a school; her small companion was no longer required at home as--it was Mrs. Beale's own amusing word--a little duenna.

The underlined words are: It took the form of her ladyship's refusal for three days to see her

little girl--three days during which Sir Claude made hasty merry dashes into the schoolroom to smooth down the odd situation, to say "She'll come round, you know; I assure you she'll come round," and a little even to compensate Maisie for the indignity he had caused her to suffer.

The underlined words are: The note of this particular danger emboldened Maisie to put in a word for Mrs. Wix, the modest measure of whose avidity she had taken from the first; but Mrs. Beale disposed afresh and effectually of a candidate who would be sure to act in some horrible

and insidious way for Ida's interest and who moreover was personally loathsome and as ignorant as a fish.

The underlined words are: The process of making up, as to which the good lady had an immense deal to say, took, through its successive phases, so long that it heralded a term at least

equal to the child's last stretch with her father.

The underlined words are: There had never in the child's life been, in all ways, such a delightful

amount of reparation. It came out by his sociable admission that her ladyship had not known of his visit to her late husband's house and of his having made that person's daughter a pretext for striking up an acquaintance with the dreadful creature installed there.

The underlined words are: They had certainly no idle hours, and the child went to bed each night as tired as from a long day's play. This had begun from the moment of their reunion, begun with all Mrs. Wix had to tell her young friend of the reasons of her ladyship's extraordinary

behaviour at the very first.

Choose the right variant: "He's my husband, if you please, and I'm his little wife. So NOW we'll see who's your little mother!"

Choose the right variant: "As your father's wedded wife? Utterly!" Miss Overmore replied. And the difference began of course in her being addressed, even by Maisie, from that day and by her particular request, as Mrs. Beale.

Choose the right variant: "Isn't he beautiful?" the child ingenuously asked.

Choose the right variant: "On account of the marriage?" Maisie risked.

Choose the right variant: "Very much indeed; but that won't matter NOW." Miss Overmore spoke with peculiar significance and to her pupil's mystification.

Choose the right variant: It appeared to Maisie herself to exhibit a fresh attraction, and she was troubled, having never before had occasion to differ from her lovely friend.

Choose the right variant: Miss Overmore glittered more gaily; meanwhile it came over Maisie, and quite dazzlingly, that her "smart" governess was a bride.

Choose the right variant: She caught her pupil to her bosom in a manner that was not to be outdone by the emissary of her predecessor, and a few moments later, when things had lurched back into their places, that poor lady, quite defeated of the last word, had soundlessly taken flight.

Choose the right variant: After Mrs. Wix's retreat Miss Overmore appeared to recognise that she was not exactly in a position to denounce Ida Farange's second union; but she drew from a table-drawer the photograph of Sir Claude and, standing there before Maisie, studied it at some length.

Choose the right variant: It was there indeed principally that it ended, for except that the child could reflect that she should presently have four parents in all, and also that at the end of three months the staircase, for a little girl hanging over banisters, sent up the deepening rustle of more elaborate advances, everything made the same impression as before.

Choose the right variant: Maisie felt a fear. "Won't papa dislike to see it there?"

Choose the right variant: Mrs. Beale had very pretty frocks, but Miss Overmore's had been quite as good, and if papa was much fonder of his second wife than he had been of his first Maisie had foreseen that fondness, had followed its development almost as closely as the person more directly involved.

Choose the right variant: So she only could ask what, such being the case, she should do with it: should she put it quite away–where it wouldn't be there to offend? On this Miss Overmore again cast about; after which she said unexpectedly: "Put it on the schoolroom mantelpiece."

Choose the right variant: There were things dislike of which, as the child knew it, wouldn't matter to Mrs. Beale now, and their number increased so that such a trifle as his hostility to the photograph of Sir Claude quite dropped out of view.

Choose the right variant: "Papa's not about to marry--papa IS married, my dear. Papa was married the day before yesterday at Brighton."

Fill in the gap: "A lady's expected to have natural feelings. But YOUR horrible sex--! Isn't it a horrible sex, little love?" she demanded ___ her cheek upon her stepdaughter's.

Fill in the gap: As to what had taken place the day Sir Claude came for her, she had been vaguely grateful ___ Mrs. Wix for not attempting, as her mother had attempted, to put her through.

Fill in the gap: At one of these times Maisie found her opening it out that, though the difficulties were many, it was Mrs. Beale ___ had now become the chief.

Fill in the gap: Besides, there ARE no family-women--hanged if there are! None ___ them want any children--hanged if they do!"

Fill in the gap: Her account of it brought back to Maisie the happy vision of the way Sir Claude and Mrs. Beale had made acquaintance--an incident to which, with her stepfather, though she had had little to say about it to Mrs. Wix, she had during the first weeks of her stay ___ her mother's found more than one opportunity to revert.

Fill in the gap: Mrs. Wix reminded her disciple on such occasions–hungry moments often, when all the support of the reminder was required–that the "real life" of their companions, the brilliant society ___ which it was inevitable they should move and the complicated pleasures in which it was almost presumptuous of the mind to follow them, must offer features literally not to be imagined without being seen.

Fill in the gap: Then it was that, well aware Mrs. Beale hadn't in the least really given her up, she had asked him ___ he remained in communication with her and if for the time everything must really be held to be at an end between her stepmother and herself.

Fill in the gap: There had been times ___ she had had to make the best of the impression that she was herself deceitful; yet she had never concealed anything bigger than a thought.

Fill in the gap: ___ the same time she felt, through encircling arms, her protectress hesitate. "You do come out with things! But you mean her ladyship doesn't want any--really?"

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