Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer
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"If you please, Sir George, she is in hysterics." "Oh! why?" exclaimed Lady Atherley plaintively. "Because, my lady, Mrs. Mallet has seen the ghost!" "Because Mrs. Mallet has seen the ghost!" repeated Atherley. "Pray, what is Mrs. Mallet herself doing under the circumstances?" "She is having some brandy-and-water, Sir George." "Mrs. Mallet is a sensible woman," said Atherley heartily; "Ann, the kitchen-maid, had better follow her example." "You may go, Charles," said Lady Atherley; and, as the door closed behind him, exclaimed, "I wish that horrid woman had never entered the house!" "What horrid woman? Your too sympathetic kitchen-maid?" "No, that--that Mrs. Mallet." "Why are you angry with her? Because she has seen the ghost?" "Yes, for I told her most particularly the very day I engaged her, after Mrs. Webb left us in that sudden way--I told her I never allowed the ghost to be mentioned." "And why, my dear, did you break your own excellent rule by mentioning |
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