10/29 And he looked just as if he was dead--and he bled so." Here, just for a second or two, the color left the big girl's lips, and she trembled a little. Miss Leaf went to the kitchen cupboard, and took out their only bottle of wine--administered in rare doses, exclusively as medicine. We will talk to you by-and-by." Elizabeth looked up with a long, wistfull stare of intense surprise, and then added, "Have I done any thing wrong, missis ?" "I did not say so. But drink this; and don't talk, child." She was obeyed. By-and-by Elizabeth disappeared into the back kitchen, emerged thence with a clean face, hands, and apron; and went about her afternoon business as if nothing had happened. |