This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the kitchen, and bringing with her odours that were more than a hint of what we had had for luncheon and what we were to have for dinner. The Major courteously waved her to a chair, but she ignored his gesture and stood with an anticipatory smirk on her face. She was accustomed to being sent for every Saturday night to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the kitchen, and bringing with her odours that were more than a hint of what we had had for luncheon and what we were to have for dinner. The Major courteously waved her to a chair, but she ignored his gesture and stood with an anticipatory smirk on her face. She was accustomed to being sent for every Saturday night to receive our board. It's a bad habit to get people into the way of expecting anything, especially money, at a certain time. For, when they don't get it, they are disappointed, and I hate to cause pain. "Mr. Spurlock and myself," the Major began in his largest and most expansive manner, quite as if he were distributing presents from a Christmas tree, "find ourselves temporarily sho't of funds, owin' to the difficulty of makin' collections durin' the present annoyin' tightness of the money market. In consequence, we may have to trespass on yo' good natchah fo' a week or two, but it will not, I trust, madam, cause you any inconvenience," and he wound up with a fine, old-school bow. Unfortunately, this one happened to be a newschool landlady, and the perfidy of the men whom she had encountered in her forty odd years of life must have been something shocking. No one but a woman who'd been jilted at twenty, deserted at thirty, and bilked by thousands of unscrupulous, but resourceful, boarders could have met the Major's affable explanation with so sudden and complete a refutation of it as came to her lips. While he was talking, I noticed a curious change in her appearance. The red in her face deepened into purple, but I took this for a natural fading out of the external fires, rather than a lighting up of the internal ones. But when he finished the flare-up was so complete that I felt she must have used some sort of mental kerosen...
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