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"I fear for the worst," said Mrs. Wykoff. "If Mary Carson sat all day on Monday in damp clothes, wet feet, and without taking a sufficient quantity of nourishing food, I wouldn't give much for her life." Mrs. Lowe gathered her shawl around her, and arose to depart. There was a cloud on her face. "You will see Miss Carson to-day?" she said. "Oh, yes." "At what time do you think of going?"
"Excuse me; but at what time did she get her breakfast?" There was just a little shrinking in the manner of Mrs. Wykoff; as she answered "Towards nine o'clock." "Did she eat anything?" "Well, no, not much in particular. I thought her a little dainty. She took coffee; but it didn't just appear to suit her appetite. Then I offered her tea, and she drank a cup." "But didn't take any solid food?"
Wykoff, "on the way in which it was done. If there was a formal stipulation, or a cold demand, I do not think the response would be a favorable one. But, I am satisfied that, in your case, with the signs of poor health on your countenance, the mild request to be considered as far as practicable, would, in almost every instance, receive a kind return." "Perhaps so.
"Did you feel the old exhaustion on waking?" "I always feel weak in the morning; but it was nothing, this morning, to what it has been." "How was your appetite?" "Better. I eat an egg and a piece of toast, and they tasted good. Usually my stomach loathes food in the morning." "Has this been the case long?" "For a long time, ma'am." Mrs. Wykoff mused for a little while, and then asked
I thought, as I stood at the door, waiting to be let in, that I would ask for a cracker or a piece of bread and butter; but, when I met you, and saw how sober you looked, my heart failed me." "Why, Mary!" said Mrs. Wykoff. "How wrong it was in you!" "May be it was, ma'am; but I couldn't help it.
She had already declined the hands of two young men of the first families in the city, much to the displeasure of both her parents, when she met Theodore Wilmer, who resided in the family of Mr. Wykoff, partner in the house that employed the young man in the capacity of clerk.
As I had been unable to eat anything at breakfast-time, I grew very faint, and when called to dinner, was unable to swallow a mouthful. When I got home in the evening I was feverish and exhausted, and coughed nearly all night. It was three or four days before I was well enough to go out again." "Has this happened, in any instance, while you were sewing for me?" asked Mrs. Wykoff.
"My interest in you prompts these questions, Mary," said Mrs. Wykoff. "Speak to me freely, if you will, as to a friend. What made the difference?" "I think the difference is mainly due to your kindness yesterday. To the glass of wine and biscuit when I was faint, and to the early and good dinner, when exhausted nature was crying for food. I believe, Mrs.
If it should get out, I would be talked about dreadfully; and I'm sure the girl is a great deal more to blame than I am. Why didn't she see to it that her feet and clothes were dried before she sat down to her work?" Mrs. Wykoff did not answer. Mrs. Lowe stood for a few moments, waiting for some exculpatory suggestion; but Mrs. Wykoff had none to offer. "Good morning.
He was met by the senior partner, with a manner that chilled him to the heart. "Is Mr. Wykoff in?" he asked. "No," was the cold reply. "He has not left town?" "Yes. He went to New Orleans yesterday, and will not return for two or three months." "Did he leave a letter for me?" "No." Then came an embarrassing silence of some moments which was broken by Wilmer's saying
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