said Bessie, after dinner.html">dinner.
"Oh no, not at all!" returned Liscomb, polite enough to tell.html">tell.html">tell an
sharp, is the hour.html">hour. Did you speak to her about it?"
"No, but I intend to," answered Bessie. "I'll tell her the first
to-day, but when I got down.html">down-stairs she had gone out."
"Was it her day out?"
"No; but her sister is sick, and she was sent for. It was all
wearied with the excitement of the first irregular day he had known
promptly in the morning to-night.html">night, before we go/go.html">go to bed.html">bed."
"Very well," returned Bessie, "I'll go down now and do it;" and down
she said, "that she went to bed as soon as dinner was cooked, so I
Breakfast had been served a half-hour earlier, Jane and Bessie
Liscomb were compelled to take the eight-o'clock train to town,
Thaddeus, but his book-keeper had a woful tale to tell of his
Thaddeus, he spoke his mind very plainly--to Liscomb. Bessie never
Liscomb, and, as Liscomb remarked later, he seemed like somebody
about it all. That night a telegram came from Liscomb, saying that
matters requiring his attention at his own home.html">home, he thought he would
indifference; Jane with indignation, if the slamming of doors in
accepted them without a murmur. It made no difference to Norah on
because her "days at home" were shifted, so that her day out was
a week or two later.
"Not a word," returned Bessie.
"Has she 'looked' anything?"
"Volumes," Bessie answered.
"Does she take exception to any of them?"
"No," said Bessie, "and I've discovered why, too. She hasn't read.html">read
him, "She must read them."
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