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Updated: May 9, 2025
The apartment was one of those which seem to laugh in a visitor's face and on closer examination express frivolity more distinctly than by words. 'Miss Gruchette is here to keep the fowls? said Ethelberta, in a puzzled tone, after a survey. 'Yes. But they don't keep her. Ethelberta did not attempt to understand, and ceased to occupy her mind with the matter.
'She lives here to attend to the pheasants and poultry, because she is so clever in managing them. They are brought here from the keeper's over the hill. Her father was a fancier. 'Miss Gruchette attends to the birds, and two servants attend to Miss Gruchette? 'Well, to tell the truth, m'm, the servants do almost all of it. Still, that's what Miss Gruchette is here for.
The woman blushed. 'They meant Miss Gruchette. 'Oh a nickname. 'Yes. 'Why? The woman whispered why in a story of about two minutes' length. Ethelberta turned pale. 'Is she going to return? she inquired, in a thin hard voice. 'Yes; next week. You know her, m'm? 'No. I am a stranger. 'So much the better.
She was interested in knowing the purpose of the peculiar little edifice. The door was opened by a woman wearing a clean apron upon a not very clean gown. Ethelberta asked who lived in so pretty a place. 'Miss Gruchette, the servant replied. 'But she is not here now. 'Does she live here alone? 'Yes excepting myself and a fellow-servant. 'Oh.
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