Absolute obedience, absolute truth! If these two things were all, she could hold on, she was sure of it.
A messenger boy was brought in, and delivered a letter to her uncle.

He read and destroyed it at once.
"There is no answer," he said.
The messenger protested.
"I am to wait, sir, until you give me one," he said.

"The gentleman said it was most important.

I was to find you anywhere, anyhow, and get an answer of some sort." "How much," Mr.Phineas Duge asked, "were you to receive if you took back an answer ?" "The gentleman promised me a dollar, sir," the boy answered.
Mr.Duge put his hand into his pocket.
"Here are two dollars," he said.

"Go away at once.