5/28 One day she came flying into the parlor with her face all aglow. "O Mamita Lila," exclaimed she, "I have had such a pleasant surprise! I went to Mr.Goldwin's store to do your errand, and who should I find there but Florimond Blumenthal!" "And, pray, who is Florimond Blumenthal ?" inquired Mrs.Delano. He was a poor orphan, that papa took for an errand-boy. He sent him to school, and afterward he was his clerk. He came to our house often when I was a little girl; but after he grew tall, papa used to send an old negro man to do our errands. |