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Title: Tenterhooks
Author: Ada Leverson
Release Date: November 8, 2003 [eBook #10021]
Language: English
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Tenterhooks
[Book 2 of The Little Ottleys]
by Ada Leverson
1912
TO ROBERT ROSS
CHAPTER I
A Verbal Invitation
Because Edith had not been feeling very well, that seemed no reason why
she should be the centre of interest; and Bruce, with that jealousy of
the privileges of the invalid and in that curious spirit of rivalry
which his wife had so often observed, had started, with enterprise, an
indisposition of his own, as if to divert public attention. While he
was at Carlsbad he heard the news. Then he received a letter from
Edith, speaking with deference and solicitude of Bruce's rheumatism,
entreating him to do the cure thoroughly, and suggesting that they
should call the little girl Matilda, after a rich and sainted--though
still living--aunt of Edith's.
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