[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER XI 7/14
I had it made at Worth's.
She is coming to-night, you know.' Dolly had heard from her husband of Arthur's fancy, and though she had no faith in it, she replied: 'Yes, Frank told me you were expecting her again, and I came to say that we cannot get the fish you ordered, for no one can go to town in this storm, and I doubt if we could find it if we did.
You will have to skip the fish.' 'All right; all right.
Gretchen will be too much excited to care,' Arthur replied, standing with his hand upon the door-knob until Dolly left the room and went to this kitchen, where Frank was interviewing the coachman. He had found that important personage before the fire, bending nearly double and complaining bitterly of a fall he had just had on his way from the stable to the house.
According to his statement, the wind had taken him up bodily, and carrying him a dozen rods or so, had set him down heavily upon a stone flowerpot which was left outside in the winter, nearly breaking his back, as he declared.
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