Where She Missed It.
"Ma and. I," 'she said, shyly, v fvre more Yike sisters than mother and daughter." " Yes," he said, with a lingering inflection •on the after-guard of the yes, which rose clear to the ceiling. " Yes, indeedl" said the girl, the rosy flush on her cheeks making her infinitely more beautiful than ever. "Ma and 1 are inseperables. "We have never been separated a single day since I was a little baby."
"N-no ?" he said, this time with an inflection on the second section of no that wont, only half way to the ceiling find back again.
" Oh, dear, no !" the girl went on in her artless way, " and ma and I always said that when I was married she was going to love ray husband like her own son, and come and keep house for us."
" Oh-h I" William said, with a circumflex. Then he rose firmly, and said he had a note in the bank to take up at 3 o'clock, and as it was now 9.30 he would go. And go he did, and ho didn't come back again. No, never. Aud ma said to the girl —
" That's where you missed it. in not fully trusting your mother. Why didn't yoa tell me that man had been married before ?"
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Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 38
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215Where She Missed It. Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 38
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