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"I'd give almost anything for it, for the sake of old associations. I wish you'd fix a price on this, Miss Collisham." "Very well, then, I will, one million of dollars," replied Miss Colishaw, losing all command over her temper. "No, ma'am, I'm not joking.
"Just over there in First Street," said the child, staring at Candace, whose big red hat had caught her fancy. "'Tain't but a little way," she added. "Ah, indeed!" said Mrs. Joy, pushing her way into the entry. "Well, then, you just run over to this place, dear, and tell Miss Collisham that there's a lady waiting to speak to her on business. Be quick, that's a good little girl!
Perhaps her face showed something of the shame and annoyance with which her heart was filled; for Miss Colishaw's iron expression relaxed a little, and the "Good-afternoon" she vouchsafed her sounded a shade less implacable. "Oh, I forgot!" said Mrs. Joy, turning back to the rear room. "There's this old chair, Miss Collisham." "Colishaw's my name," interposed her hostess.
"Is Miss Collisham at home?" asked Mrs. Joy, at the same time inserting her foot deftly between the door and the door-frame, to insure that the door should not be closed against her. "No, 'm," said the child. "She's gone out."
"Oh, Collishan or Collisham, some name like that. She lives in Third Street." "It must be old Miss Colishaw. Are you sure she wants to sell her china?" asked Mrs. Gray, who as a child had spent many summers in Newport before it became a fashionable watering-place, and knew the townspeople much better than did Mrs. Joy. "I believe so; why shouldn't she?
Joy's proceedings through the open door, saw her coming, but had no time to warn Mrs. Joy. "You wanted to see me on business?" said Miss Colishaw, fixing a pair of wrathful eyes on Mrs. Joy, the pitcher, and the open door of the closet. "Oh, is it Miss Collisham?" replied that lady, neither noticing nor caring for the very evident indignation of look and tone.
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