[Rudder Grange by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookRudder Grange CHAPTER VI 20/21
When she goes we can take these horrid bones away.
But I hope nobody will call on us in the meantime." "Must we keep these things here a whole week ?" I asked. "Oh, I can't turn her away without giving her a fair notice.
That would be cruel." I saw the truth of the remark, and determined to bear with the bones and her rather than be unkind. That night Euphemia informed the girl of her decision, and the next morning, soon after I had left, the good German appeared with her bonnet on and her carpet-bag in her hand, to take leave of her mistress. "What!" cried Euphemia.
"You are not going to-day ?" "If it is goot to go at all it is goot to go now," said the girl. "And you will go off and leave me without any one in the house, after my putting myself out to give you a fair notice? It's shameful!" "I think it is very goot for me to go now," quietly replied the girl. "This house is very loneful.
I will go to-morrow in the city to see your husband for my money.
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