[With Wolfe in Canada by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Wolfe in Canada CHAPTER 2: The Showman's Grandchild 12/36
I am going on to Exeter from here, and shall get her a stock of clothes there, and will bring her back next Saturday.
Will it suit you to take her then ?" Mrs.Walsham said that would suit very well; and an hour later the sergeant set out from Sidmouth with his box, Aggie trotting alongside, talking continuously. "But why am I to stop with that lady, grampa, and not to go about with you any more? I sha'n't like it.
I like going about, though I get so tired sometimes when you are showing the pictures; and I like being with you.
It isn't 'cause I have been naughty, is it? 'Cause I fell out of the boat into the water? I won't never get into a boat again, and I didn't mean to fall out, you know." "No, Aggie, it's not that," the sergeant said.
"You are always a good girl--at least, not always, because sometimes you get into passions, you know.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|