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Bressant

CHAPTER V
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Bad enough to be insulted; worse, having become properly angry, to find no insult was meant; and, worst of all, to have been the means of drawing attention, by her bad temper, to a physical infirmity in her papa's guest.

She abandoned upon the instant all intention of being ceremonious and imposing, and only thought how she might atone, to her papa and to Bressant, for her ill-behavior.
He would not take tea--nothing but water; and, as Cornelia proceeded in silence to pour out her papa's cup, the latter answered Bressant's question about the boarding-house.
"Know it very well, sir.

Very good house.

What have you heard about it ?" "Nothing more than that; I asked a man at the depot.

My trunk has been taken there.


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