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A resemblance to her mother, never before visible, came out in her face like a brand. She lifted her hand and slapped Electa's cheek deliberately twice, leaving a dull red mark where she struck. "If you ever strike my brother again," she said, slowly and vindictively, "I will slap your face every time you do. You have no right to touch him." "My patience, what a fury!" said Electa.
I should have been ashamed of my girls if they had not known how to make one single garment by the time they were ten year old." "But Doris isn't ten," interposed Betty. "And here is Electa's letter, Aunt Priscilla." "No, I don't see how I can spare Betty," said Mrs. Leverett decisively. Aunt Priscilla took out her glasses and polished them and then adjusted them to her rather high nose.
Warren was going to the house of a friend to supper, as the debating society met there, and it saved him a long walk. "Father, Electa's letter has come," in a hurried whisper. "She's planned out my visit, but mother thinks oh, do try and persuade her, and make it possible! I want to go so much." But Betty began to think the subject never would be mentioned.
In Charles Holland's household she took Electa's place an unpaid upper servant. Charles and Caroline were kind enough to her, and there was plenty to do. For five years her dull, colorless life went on, during which time she never crossed the threshold of the house where Victoria Holland ruled with a sway as absolute as Naomi's had been.
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