The Awdries and their friends; and other tales

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...carried me through. Come to-morrow, for I have two ladies with me, who depend wholly on you for doing up." Anne willingly promised, but stood to watch Margaret down the street, wondering much how a lady like Miss Awdrie, who had so much time and money to spend upon looking nice, should be so o little the better for it. "Really, if she wasn't such a dear, excellent, good creature as she is, I should say she didn't deserve to have it," she mentally exclaimed. "And to think how nice that skirt did look! Well, she isn't a bit like that sweet, pretty lady in the book, now, at any rate; how she had tied her bonnet!" And she ruminated as to whether some serious remonstrance should not be made, not knowing the ordeal to which the skirt and bonnet-strings had been exposed. CHAPTER XXI. TRIUMPH. ARGARET found that her guests had been well cared for by her head servant, Sarah, a trusty and venerable domestic, who had spent all her years of service in the family; had watched the decline and seen the death of all its elder members; had superintended Margaret through childhood, from the time of her being brought to her mother's home; and had, in fact, learnt to consider herself as, more properly, an integral part of the establishment than its present mistress; inasmuch as she had been there much longer, and had borne sway over her for years. Notwithstanding her sincere love for Margaret, and her secret satisfaction with her circumstances in life, she would often tease lier mistress with a look of discontent, and a half-muttered complaint. "What if I have it tolerable easy, and tolerable good wages, and tolerable as I like?' Service is no inheritance,' " was frequently on her lips. Her fellow-servant Kitty, who was young and lively, and ...

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The Door Without a Knocker, and Other Tales.

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Frog Alley And What Came Out Of It (1879)

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Tiger Jack, By The Author Of 'quality Fogg's Old Ledger'.

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The Wise Man Of Wittlebury: Or Charity Begins At Home (1880)

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The Crinkles of Crinklewood Hall. A tale

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The Sparrow On The Housetop: And Wishing And Wanting (1882)

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The Wise Man Of Wittlebury, Or, Charity Begins At Home

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The Sparrow On The Housetop, And Wishing And Wanting

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The Day After To-morrow

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The Days Of The Cattle Plague

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The Door Without A Knocker: And Other Tales (1875)

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The Awdries And Their Friends: And Other Tales

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