[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER XXXIII 9/15
There had come no baby after him, and she remembered him so well, starting now with surprise as she saw reflected in Willie's face the look she never had forgotten. "Who is he, Anna? Not her child, the waiting woman's, surely." "Hush--sh," came warningly from Anna, as she glanced toward the open door, and that brought Asenath back from her dream of the past. It was the waiting woman's child.
There was no look like John now.
She had been mistaken, and rather rudely pushing him away, she said: "I think you might have consulted us, at least.
What are we to do with a child in this house? Here, here, young man," and Asenath started forward just in time to frighten Willie and make him drop and break the goblet he was trying to reach from the stand, "to dink," as he said. Asenath's purple silk was deluged with the water, and her temper was considerably ruffled as she exclaimed: "You see the mischief he has done, and it was cut glass, too.
I hope you'll deduct it from her wages!" "Asenath," and Anna's voice betrayed her astonishment that her sister should speak so in Adah's presence. She had hurried out at Asenath's alarm, but the latter did not at first observe her, and when she did, she was actually startled into an apology for her speech. "I'm sorry Willie was so careless.
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