[The Honorable Miss by L. T. Meade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Honorable Miss CHAPTER XXIX 3/21
What does it all mean, Mrs.Gorman Stanley? Is Beatrice Meadowsweet to be married on Tuesday, or is she not ?" "My dear friend, I can't tell you.
There are all sorts of rumors about. I was at Perry's buying a yard of muslin, when Mrs.Morris came in.
She had her mouth pursed up, and her voice perfectly guttural from bronchitis, so I knew she was keeping something in, and I made a point of going up to her.
I said, 'you have got some news, Mrs.Morris, and you may as well out with it.' Then she told me." "What? Mrs.Gorman Stanley, I trust you don't feel the draught from that window.
I'll shut it if you like.
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