The Sisters-In-Law by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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"Darling," she said firmly to the sister who was little older than her first-born, "I want to have a talk with you. Come into papa's old dressing-room. I had a cot put there, and as there is no room for another I am quite alone." Alexina followed with lagging feet. She had always given her elder sister the same surface obedience that she gave her mother. It "saved trouble." But life had changed so since morning that she was in no mood to keep up the role of "little sister," sweet and malleable and innocent as a Ballinger-Groome at the age of eighteen should be. II She dropped on the floor and embraced her knees with her arms. Mrs. Abbott seated herself in as dignified an attitude as was possible on the edge of the cot. Even the rocking-chairs had been taken down to the dining-room. "Well?" queried Alexina, pretending to stifle a yawn. "What is it? I am too sleepy to think." "Sleepy? You looked sleepy with your eyes like saucers watching that young man." "Everybody that can is watching the fire--" "Don't quibble, Alexina. You are naturally a truthful child. Do you mean to |
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