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She said that, on reflection, she could not help seeing what an advantage he would have over her he being in a solicitor's office, with the law at his fingers' ends should she ever find it necessary to summons him. "But, my good girl," said Ethelbertha, quite distressed, "one doesn't marry a man with the idea of subsequently summonsing him!"
I thought it best to tell Ethelbertha the truth; that things had gone wrong with the kitchen stove. "Let me know the worst," she said. "Is Veronica hurt?" "The worst," I said, "is that I shall have to pay for a new range. Why, when anything goes amiss, poor Veronica should be assumed as a matter of course to be in it, appears to me unjust." "You are sure she's all right?" persisted Ethelbertha.
He also added, somewhat illogically, that it really did not matter, seeing both Ethelbertha and Mrs. Harris were women of sense who would judge him better than to believe for a moment that the suggestion emanated from him. This little point settled, the question was: What sort of a change? Harris, as usual, was for the sea.
"Ethelbertha thought me heartless, and said that if I would not go she would go herself. I replied that I thought one female member of my household was enough in that camp at a time, and requested her not to. "In the afternoon, strolling out into the garden, I heard the faint cry of a female in distress. I listened attentively, and the cry was repeated.
"But, surely," exclaimed Ethelbertha, "you don't mean to say you're breaking off the match because you don't like his sausages!" "Well, I suppose that's what it comes to," agreed Amenda, unconcernedly. "What an awful idea!" sighed poor Ethelbertha, after a long pause. "Do you think you ever really loved him?"
I'm a nice sort of girl to be walking out with a respectable milkman. "She was so deeply disgusted with herself that it seemed superfluous for anybody else to be indignant with her; and Ethelbertha changed her tone and tried to comfort her. "'Oh, you'll get over all that nonsense, Amenda, she said, laughingly; 'you see yourself how silly it is. You must tell Mr.
On coming downstairs the next morning we found the breakfast table spread very nicely, but there was no breakfast. We waited. Ten minutes went by a quarter of an hour twenty minutes. Then Ethelbertha rang the bell. In response Amenda presented herself, calm and respectful. "Do you know that the proper time for breakfast is half-past eight, Amenda?" "Yes'm."
Why, I should be leaving the shop with nobody in it about twice a week, and he'd have to go the round of all the barracks in London, looking for me. I shall save up and get myself into a lunatic asylum, that's what I shall do. "Ethelbertha began to grow quite troubled.
The blue velvet we put in the kitchen. I deemed this extravagance, but Ethelbertha said that servants thought a lot of a good carpet, and that it paid to humour them in little things, when practicable. The bedroom had one big bed and a cot in it; but I could not see where the girl was going to sleep. The architect had overlooked her altogether: that is so like an architect.
Among the more public-spirited there is talk of using you to start a local museum." These first three paragraphs I did not read to Ethelbertha. Fortunately they just filled the first sheet, which I took an opportunity of slipping into my pocket unobserved. "The new boy arrived on Sunday morning," she continued. "His name if I have got it right is William.
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