But just that one evening I was obliged to cross the landing for something, and my eye just lowered itself by accident, and there it was!" "Just where it would have tripped her up.

Good Lord! it makes my heart turn over to hear you tell it.

How big a bit of carving was it ?" Mrs.
Cupp's opulent chest trimmings heaved.
"Only a small piece that had broken off from old age and worm-eatenness, I suppose, but it had dropped just where she wouldn't have caught sight of it, and ten to one would have stepped on it and turned her ankle and been thrown from the top to the bottom of the whole flight.

Suppose I _hadn't_ seen it in time to pick it up before she went down.

Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Mother!" "I should say so!" Mrs.Cupp's manner approached the devout.