[Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters by May Agnes Fleming]@TWC D-Link bookKate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters CHAPTER IV 5/26
Never got scolded once since I went away, and I pitched my clothes everywhere! Say, Grace, how do you get on with the new comers ?" "Very well." Here Babette appeared with the young lady's lunch, and Miss Rose sat down to it promptly. "What is she like, Kate--handsome ?" "Very!" with emphasis. "Handsomer than I am ?" "A thousand times handsomer!" "Bah! I don't believe it! Tall and fair, with light hair and blue eyes. Am I right ?" "Yes." "Then she is as insipid as milk and water--as insipid as you are, old Madame Grumpy.
And papa--he's big and loud-voiced, and red-faced and jolly, I suppose ?" "Miss Rose Danton, be a little more respectful, if you want me to answer your questions." "Well, but isn't he? And Mr.Richards--who's Mr.Richards ?" "I don't know." "Isn't he here ?" "Yes, certainly." "Then why don't you know ?" "Because I have not, like Rose Danton, a bump of inquisitiveness as large as a turnip." "Now, Grace, don't be hateful.
Tell me all you know about Mr.Richards." "And that is nothing.
I have never even seen him.
He is an invalid; he keeps his rooms, night and day.
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