[The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Morgesons CHAPTER XVIII 2/23
By the by, I must go now, and see if the parlor is in order." I followed her with my bonnet in hand, for it was school time. She looked about, then went up to the mantel, and taking out the candle-ends from the candelabra, looked in the glass, and said, "I am a fright this morning." "Am I ?" I asked over her shoulder, for I was nearly a head taller. "No; you are too young to look jaded in the morning.
Your eyes are as clear as a child's; and how blue they are." "Mild and babyish-like, are they not? almost green with innocence.
But Charles has devilish eyes, don't you think so ?" She turned with her mouth open in astonishment, and her hand full of candle-ends.
"Cassandra Morgeson, are you mad ?" "Good-by," Alice. I only saw Mr.Somers at prayers during the following fortnight.
But in that short time he made many acquaintances.
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