10/18 From the time my father gets up in the morning, to the time when he goes to bed at night, he has not got five minutes--as he tells us every day--for attending to anything but business. Even at dinner, when you get a good hour, and won't be disturbed--now will you ?" "No, miss; not if all the work was tumbling down. No workman as respects himself would take fifty-nine minutes for sixty." "Exactly so; and you are right. Your dinner you have earned, and you will have it. |