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Verner’s Pride

CHAPTER II
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Putting on a gay face, she laughed off the matter.

Matthew pressed it.
"Something went wrong at home, and I got a scolding," said Rachel at length.

"It was not worth crying over, though." Mrs.Frost turned round from her saucepan.
"A scolding from the missis, Rachel ?" "There's nobody else at Verner's Pride should scold me," responded Rachel, with a charming little air of self-consequence.

"Mrs.Verner said a cross word or two, and I was so stupid as to burst out crying.

I have had a headache all day, and that's sure to put me out of sorts." "There's always things to worry one in service, let it be ever so good on the whole," philosophically observed Mrs.Frost, bestowing her attention again upon the saucepan.


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