[Dick and Brownie by Mabel Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookDick and Brownie CHAPTER IX 17/17
When was yesterday ?" The man laughed.
"Don't you worry," he said, kindly; "you've been living two days in one, and have got muddled.
You will feel better when you've had a basin of hot bread and milk.
Bring her over to the fire, Harry, she's starved with the cold." "Harry," her first friend, carried her over, and put her in a big armchair by the fire, and presently one of the others brought her a basin of hot bread and milk, and a plateful of food for Dick, and before Huldah had taken a half of it she was feeling altogether a different person. "I didn't feel hungry, but I s'pose I was," she said, simply, looking up with grateful, friendly eyes at the old policeman.
"I feel ever so much better now." "Ay, ay; we don't always know what we want, nor what is good for us,--but here's somebody as'll be good for you, unless I'm very much mistaken!" and Huldah, following the direction of his eyes as they travelled to the door, gave one long low cry of rapturous delight, for there walking in to the police station were Mrs.Perry and Miss Rose!.
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