Explore "Miss Devereux, Spinster" by Agnes Giberne on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"The happy find / Equality of beauty everywhere / To feed on. " / JEAN INGELOW.
MRS. TREVELYAN carried out her intention, and made abundant use of Giles Cuthbert for the amusing of Jean. Usually he was not amenable to such efforts, having a great objection to needless trouble, but for once, he offered no objection. If he had taken a fancy to the girl, that made all the difference. The laziest people living will take trouble to please themselves.