WHERE SHE MISSED IT.
"Ma and I," she snid shyly, "are more like two sisters than mother and daughter." " Yes," he said, with a lingering inflection on tho afterguard of the yes, which ro<e clear to the ceiling 1 . •' Yes, indeed 1 " said the girl, tha rosy flush on her cheeks making her infinitely more beautiful than ever. "M i and I are inseparables. We have never been separated a single day since I waß a little baby." " N-ao ? " he said, this time with on inflection on the second section of no that went only half way to the ceiling and back again. " Oh, dear, no ! " the girl wont on in her artless way, " and ma and I always said that when I was married sho was going to love my husband like her own son, and come and keep house for us." "Oli-h ?" William said, with a circumflex. Then ho rose firmly, and said he had a note in tho bank to take up at three o'clock, and as it wai now half-past nine he would go. and go ho did, and hd did'nt. come back again. No, never. And ma said to the girl— " That's where you. missed it in nut fully trusting your mother. Why did'nt you tell me that man had been married before ?"
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Waikato Times, Volume 2537, Issue XXXI, 13 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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218WHERE SHE MISSED IT. Waikato Times, Volume 2537, Issue XXXI, 13 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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