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The Girls of St. Olave's

The Girls of St. Olave's

Mackintosh, Mabel

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ISBN10: 1153805162
ISBN13: 9781153805162
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.23 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...He went over to the cot and stood looking down on the little sleeping face, with its regular features, its long lashes lying on the bright cheeks, and its crown of tumbled golden hair. He's like the pictures of the angels, he said regretfully, if Pattie and I had had our little home, we'd have loved to let him stay with us a bit, but I'll come in on Saturday and take him on the river, if you'll let me. It seems so long since I had anybody to go out with. Poor old Tom, said Jim affectionately, it's cut you very hard, but I always believe it will come all right, you know! Pooh! said an unexpected voice behind them, you would always believe anything silly, Jim Adams! Come right, indeed! Very likely! You just wait till I have seen Miss Pattie Paul again. Have you seen her? asked Tom in a curiously quiet tone. He had gone very pale, but his face was in shadow and Jane did not perceive it or anything peculiar in his voice. Ha! she cried vaingloriously, I have! I let her know what I thought of her--mean little cat. Jane! said her husband warningly. Oh, you needn't stand up for her, she said airily. I'm not going to stand by and see my brother treated so. But what's a talking-to with a brazen hussy like that? Wait a bit, I haven't thought how to do it yet, but I'm going to pay her out. Trust me! And then Jim did what he had never done in his life before, --he took his wife by the shoulders and forcibly marched her into the bedroom and shut the door upon her. Come, Tom! he said touching him gently on the shoulder, we've had enough of this. They passed down the stairs together, but on the landing below Tom stopped, and covering his face with his hands, leaned against the wall. Oh Pattie, Pattie, he moaned, that's my last chance gone. And my own sister too. Jim said nothing. He was not good at words, but he waited till Tom had recovered himself, and then he went right to his home with him and made a cup of tea for him and sat...

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