CHAPTER X 113
" And you don ' t live at Gateshead ?"
" I live at the lodge : the old porter has left ."
" Well , and how do they all get on ? Tell me everything about them , Bessie : but sit down first ; and , Bobby , come and sit on my knee , will you ?" but Bobby preferred sidling over to his mother .
" You ' re not grown so very tall , Miss Jane , nor so very stout ," continued Mrs . Leaven . " I dare say they ' ve not kept you too well at school : Miss Reed is the head and shoulders taller than you are ; and Miss Georgiana would make two of you in breadth ."
" Georgiana is handsome , I suppose , Bessie ?"
" Very . She went up to London last winter with her mama , and there everybody admired her , and a young lord fell in love with her : but his relations were against the match ; and -- what do you think ? -- he and Miss Georgiana made it up to run away ; but they were found out and stopped . It was Miss Reed that found them out : I believe she was envious ; and now she and her sister lead a cat and dog life together ; they are always quarrelling -- "
" Well , and what of John Reed ?"
" Oh , he is not doing so well as his mama could wish . He went to college , and he got -- plucked , I think they call it : and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister , and study the law : but he is such a dissipated young man , they will never make much of him , I think ."
" What does he look like ?"
" He is very tall : some people call him a fine-looking young man ; but he has such thick lips ."
" And Mrs . Reed ?"