[The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl at Cobhurst CHAPTER XII 16/17
I can eat my supper anywhere, and I will go upstairs and wait on you, which will be better sport than sitting down at the table with you." "But I do not like that," said Miriam.
"I will not have you go without your supper until we have finished." "My dear Miriam!" exclaimed Dora, "what is a supper in comparison with such a jolly bit of fun as this? Let me go on as the new cook.
And now we must hurry and get these things on the table.
It will make things a great deal easier for me, if they can eat before it is time to light the lamps." When Miriam went to call the gentlemen to supper, the doctor said to her:-- "Your brother has told me that you have a new servant, and that she is so preposterous as to wish to take her meals with you, but that he does not intend to allow it.
Now, I say to you, as I said to him, that if she expected to sit at the table before I came, she must do it now.
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