11/39 But you vill find other lodgings, mister. Is it not bad enough that one of these people come courting my Ettie, and that I dare not turn him down, but that I should have another for my boarder? He found her alone in the sitting-room that same evening, and he poured his troubles into her ear. "It's little I would care if it was just my room, but indeed, Ettie, though it's only a week that I've known you, you are the very breath of life to me, and I can't live without you!" "Oh, hush, Mr.McMurdo, don't speak so!" said the girl. |