Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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and tell her that she is grand too, and has six hair-bottomed chairs."
"She'll never get the satisfaction," said his mother triumphantly. "Tell me more about her." "She has a laddie called Francie, and he has yellow curls, and she nearly greets because she canna tell Jean Myles that he goes to a school for the children of gentlemen only. She is so mad when she gets a letter from Jean Myles that she takes to her bed." "Yea, yea!" said Mrs. Sandys cheerily. "But they think Jean Myles has been brought low at last," continued Tommy, "because she hasna wrote for a long time to Thrums, and Esther Auld said that if she knowed for certain as Jean Myles had been brought low, she would put a threepenny bit in the kirk plate." "I'm glad you've telled me that, laddie," said Mrs. Sandys, and next day, unknown to her children, she wrote another letter. She knew she ran a risk of discovery, yet it was probable that Tommy would only hear her referred to in Thrums Street by her maiden name, which he had never heard from her, and as for her husband he had been Magerful Tam to everyone. The risk was great, but the pleasure-- Unsuspicious Tommy soon had news of another letter from Jean Myles, which had sent Esther Auld to bed again. "Instead of being brought low," he announced, "Jean Myles is grander than ever. Her Tommy has a governess." |
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