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. 1864 Excerpt: ...in all. Now, Mary Nicholson, don't be afraid; I don't mean to go to the extremity of the law with you; I'm willing to consider your youth and inexperience, but where are those three cents?" Mrs. Nicholson was about to speak, and, we grieve to say, about to insist on tixe hotsetadish, but Mrs. Frost went off like a ...
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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. 1864 Excerpt: ...in all. Now, Mary Nicholson, don't be afraid; I don't mean to go to the extremity of the law with you; I'm willing to consider your youth and inexperience, but where are those three cents?" Mrs. Nicholson was about to speak, and, we grieve to say, about to insist on tixe hotsetadish, but Mrs. Frost went off like a pendulum, and began nodding so vehemently that the culprit broke down, and penitently confessed that she had spent three cents for a little bunch of garden flowers to put in Mr. Hurst's room: she thoughtperhaps they might entice him to come home earlier. Mrs. Frost reached forth her hand and took her staff from the corner. It was impossible to support the weight of her indignation without help. "And you have done this--you spend my money to entice young men into noticing you! Mary Nicholson! Mary Nicholson! flighty as you are, I wouldn't have believed this of you. It goes beyond any thing. But this isn't the first time: it's three weeks since I saw you take that wineglass with the gold-sprig on it, out of the cupboard. I suppose you've been robbing me and buying flowers ever since." "No, ma'am, no. I changed the water twice a-day and cut off the stems to freshen 'em: one little bunch lasted two days, sometimes three." "Three times seven are twenty-one--say once in three days: I don't want to be too severe on you, Mary Nicholson; but I say once in three days; the third of three weeks is seven, and three times seven are twenty-one. Look, Mary Nicholson, if your flighty young mind can be brought to reflect--see of how much you have robbed me in three weeks; twenty-one cents. Why, that ought to buy our marketing three days. What can I do about it? if you had any wages I'd stop it out of them." "But I haven't, or...
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