[The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Window-Gazer CHAPTER XV 2/27
I am a woman who demands little from her fellow creatures, knowing perfectly well that she won't get it, but I naturally refuse to undertake the undivided responsibility of a deranged nephew galavanting, by your own orders, Doctor, at the ends of the earth." "I did not say he was deranged," began the doctor helplessly, "and you said you didn't believe me anyway." "Don't quote me to excuse yourself." Aunt Caroline sailed serenely on. "At least preserve the courage of your convictions.
There is certainly something the matter with Benis.
He has answered none of my letters.
He has completely ignored my lettergrams.
To my telegram of Thursday telling him that I had been compelled to discharge my third cook since Mabel for wiping dishes on a hand towel, he replied only by silence. And the telegraph people say that the message was never delivered owing to lack of address.
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