AN ETHEREAL CREATURE.
Araminta was understood to be a delicate eater. “ Pa,” she would say, “ what ia the use in my going into the refectory 1 ” She had been heard to murmur in her choicest grammar, “One wing of a bird is all I can possibly eat,” Charles believed her to ha ethereal. Tho expense for food after they should be wed, ho felt, would be inconsiderable. It would be embarrassing, even, to meet the butcher. Would he send his little order? He would dine in the city, but Araminta, she might not get even a wing. They were sitting in the parlor together. The door was ajar. It was now past her regular dinner hour. The folks were away. He had intended going an hour before, but somehow he lingered. A step on the stair without and a query : “ Will yer have your corned beef and cabbage now or wait till yer feller’s gone ? ”
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1711, 14 August 1879, Page 4
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155AN ETHEREAL CREATURE. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1711, 14 August 1879, Page 4
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