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Uncle Max

CHAPTER XXI
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Think how frightened poor Fraeulein will be when she misses you.' 'Poor Fraeulein, indeed! a deceitful creature like that.

Why, Ursula, what do you think?
I just peeped into her room to be sure that she was safe and it was all dark: she was not there at all.

Oh, oh, my lady, I said to myself, so that is your little game, is it?
And, just to be certain, I rang at the bell at 37 Brunswick Place, where the Schumackers live, and asked the servant if Fraeulein Hennig was still there, and when I heard that she was having tea I nearly laughed in his face.

What do you think of that for an instructress of youth,--getting up the excuse of a headache, and leaving me over those stupid lessons, while she paid a visit on her own account?
Does she not deserve a thorough good fright as a punishment ?' 'I think Aunt Philippa ought to be undeceived.

I have never trusted Fraeulein Hennig since you told me she shut herself up in her bedroom to read novels.


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