23/28 I've know'd this one sence she was two or three year old; but this gal ain't Myrtle Hazard no longer,--she's bewitched into somethin' different. I'll tell ye what, Mr.Gridley; you get old Dr.Hurlbut to come and see her once a day for a week, and get the young doctor to stay away. She 'll have some dreadful tantrums at fust, but she'll come to it in two or three, days." Master Byles Gridley groaned in spirit. He had come to this village to end his days in peace, and here he was just going to make a martyr of himself for the sake of a young person to whom he was under no obligation, except that he had saved her from the consequences of her own foolish act, at the expense of a great overturn of all his domestic habits. |