? ? ? ? Our treasure was warranted sober and honest. I am therefore willing to believe that she was in a fit when we found her under the boiler; and that the deficient tea-spoons were attributable to the dustman.
? ? ? ? But she preyed upon our minds dreadfully. We felt our inexperience, and were unable to help ourselves. We should have been at her mercy, if she had had any; but she was a remorseless woman, and had none. She was the cause of our first little quarrel.
? ? ? ? 'My dearest life,' I said one day to Dora, 'do you think Mary Anne has any idea of time?'
? ? ? ? 'Why, Doady?' inquired Dora, looking up, innocently, from her drawing.
? ? ? ? 'My love, because it's five, and we were to have dined at four.
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