[The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Blunders of a Bashful Man CHAPTER XVII 5/9
There were none.
What excuse could I make for my singular intrusion? Would it be believed if I swore that I had been unaware of the character of my surroundings? Would I be suspected of being a kleptomaniac? In the intensity of my mortification I madly followed the first impulse which moved me.
This was to dive under the bed. I had no more than taken refuge in this curious hiding-place, than I regretted the foolish act; to be discovered there would be infamy and disgrace too deep for words.
I would have crawled out at the last second, but it was too late; I heard the girls in the room, and was forced to try and keep still as a mouse, though my heart thumped so I was certain they must hear it. "Where do you suppose he has gone ?" asked one. "Goodness knows," answered Hetty.
"I have looked in the gentlemen's room--he's not there.
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