"Mrs.Whittaker declares that she will not stay an hour in a house where there is a bear without a master; but as she has a terrible sciatica and cannot travel, I do not know what she is going to do.

Her trained nurse, I believe, is now putting on her bonnet to depart." As she spoke, the joyful anticipation of a few days at the Holly Sprig Inn began to fade away.

I did not blame the bear as the present cause of my disappointment.

He had done all he could for me.

It was his wretched master who had done the mischief by running away and leaving him.