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actuated by a sudden impulse, she ran to the door.html">door.html">door, and had got it
dragged her rudely back.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" she demanded, roughly.
"Back to father.html">father.html">father and mother.html">mother," said Ida, bursting into tears. "Oh, why
ain't got any little girl to love.html">love us, and so we got you."
"But I don't love you, and I never shall," said Ida, indignantly.
"Now don't you go/go.html">go to saying that," said Dick. "You'll break my
handkerchief, and made a great demonstration of wiping his eyes.
The whole scene was so ludicrous that Ida, despite her fears and
instantly, and said, imploringly, "Oh, do let me go, and father will
did, I wouldn't do it; so you might as well give up all thoughts of
bonnet.html">bonnet of yours, and say no more about it."
Ida made no motion towards obeying this mandate.
"Then I'll do it for you," said Peg.
She roughly untied the bonnet, Ida struggling vainly in opposition,
she placed them, and then, locking the door, deliberately put the
the worst.
"Some years hence," said the woman, coolly. "We want you here for
again."
"Not glad to see me?"
"No; how do you know but your father and mother sent you off on
bound you apprentice to me till you're/re.html">re eighteen."
"It's a lie," said Ida, firmly. "They didn't send me off, and you're
child. "Have you anything more to say before I whip you?"
"Yes," said Ida, goaded to desperation; "I shall complain of you to
what I will do."
The nurse seized Ida by the arm, and striding with her to the closet
the door after her.
"She's a spunky 'un," remarked Dick, taking the pipe from his mouth.
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