[The Baronet’s Bride by May Agnes Fleming]@TWC D-Link bookThe Baronet’s Bride CHAPTER XXVI 12/23
I'll take her home to the farm, and if mother doesn't break her in she'll be the first she ever failed with." Mr.Parmalee retired betimes, slept soundly, and was up in the gray day-dawn.
Breakfast, piping hot, smoked on the table when Mrs.Denover appeared. "Eat, drink and be merry," said Mr.Parmalee.
"Go in and win.
Try that under-done steak, and don't took quite so much like the ghost of Hamlet's father, if you can help it." The woman tried with touching humility to please him, and did her best, but that best was a miserable failure. A cab came for them in half an hour, and whirled them off on the first stage of their journey. In the golden light of the spring afternoon Mr.Parmalee made his appearance again at the Blue Bell Inn, with a veiled lady, all in black, hanging on his arm. "This here lady is my maiden aunt, come over from the State of Maine to see your British institutions," Mr.Parmalee said, in fluent fiction, to the obsequious landlady.
"She's writing a book, and she'll mention the Blue Bell favorably in it.
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