[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER XVIII 8/8
He has done his best to make it pleasant for you, and I do believe he doted on your coming after he got a little used to thinking about it.
You'll like Hugh when you get accustomed to him.
There, try to go to sleep," and kind Aunt Eunice bustled from the room just as poor Densie, who had been entirely overlooked, entered it, together with Aunt Chloe.
The old negress was evidently playing the hostess to Densie, for she was talking quite loud, and all about "Mas'r Hugh." "Pity he wasn't thar, 'twould seem so different; 'tain't de same house without him.
You'll like Mas'r Hugh," and she, too, glided from the room. Was this the password at Spring Bank, "You'll like Mas'r Hugh ?" It would seem so, for when at last Hannah brought up the waffles and tea, which Aunt Eunice had prepared, she set down her tray, and after a few inquiries concerning Alice's head, which was now aching sadly, she, too, launched forth into a panegyric on Mas'r Hugh, ending, as the rest had done, "You'll like Mas'r Hugh.".
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