[Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookHomestead on the Hillside CHAPTER VIII 9/9
At eleven o'clock, Lizzie, wearied out, repaired to her chamber.
Her departure was the signal for others, and before one o'clock the last good night was said, the doors locked, the silver gathered up, the tired servants dismissed, and Lucy, in her sister's room, was giving vent to her wrath against Berintha, the party, St.Leon, and all. Scolding, however, could do her no good, and ere long, throwing herself undressed upon a lounge she fell asleep, and dreamed that grandma was married to the doctor, that Berintha had become her stepmother, and, worse than all, that Ada Harcourt was Mrs.St.Leon..
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