Marion Berkley

a full account of her interview with Aunt Bettie; sent the address, and ga

me, she was the first to get to the door and take the bag from him. As she went with it into the library, the girls all crowded round her in eager expectation, while s

don't you see I'm dying to know if t

n't care how long she keeps us waiting," sullenly

s were stretched out for the letters that filled it to the top; "hands off, I'm postman to-day, and I won't have my rights interfered with. Let me see,-number one; that's for Julia Thayer. Julia! where are you? Here, Fan, run upstairs and take it to h

stamp? Rachel Drayton, I do declare!" and she was about to add, "I'm glad she's got it;" but her habit of always treating Rachel wi

ed her services. "I am going upstairs

expressive way; but at that moment Rachel herself came into the room, and Ge

ter for you, and I could not resist givi

d it undisturbed; in the surprise and pleasure of receiving it she did not notice Georgie's unusually

o millions are taking effect; Geo

, who had stood patiently by Marion's side, saying nothing, but lookin

ttle face. "I'll look over these in a jiffy, and we'll see if there isn't one for you. Susie Brast

herself on the floor in the bow-window, and was soon

ay into the drawing-room, "just take this and hang it on the nai

er when it comes to taking out the letters, but the rest of the duties you want

ful to me for giving it to you, almost the first one; and here I am perfectly wild to read mine. However

one to hang the bag up for you after you have had the fu

e vestibule, ready for the girls to make their various de

lied Grace, who cou

rgie Graham is going to practise, for when she is in the school-room, playing Chopin's Polonaise, and you are in the drawing-room

, made up a face, and slammed the drawing-room door

ried Florence; "don't you see I

place I enjoy sitting to read my letters so much as on t

an seven weeks, and have not had them o

les. On the whole I'm glad you put them on; it will cure me of my horrible habit of bouncing down on the bed; consequently save me an innumerable amo

ell me what your

letters, and I, like a little goose, took the bag. I do hope she has so

n, Nov

ut particularly so when I read it and found how much my de

g the usual round of the intelligence offices, when your letter came. The address which you sent (I presume it was not a specimen of Miss S

inquiries, I found that Mrs. Benson had formerly occupied the store, but, as the colored gentleman informed me, 'she had removed to Boston, thinking that the crowded metropolis would afford her a better opportunity of carrying on her business, so as to render it more lucrative.' He was so extremely affable and polite, that I almost felt it my duty to sit down and have all my hair cut off; but I contented myself with buying a new kind of crimping-pin, which he assured me was the same as those used by Her Royal Highness the Empress Eugénie. Of course I believed him, and the crimping-pins will be ready for you when you come home at Christmas. But to return to my story; M

at could be the same person I wanted, but I had an inward conviction that it was, and I have still; though don't get elated yet. Mrs. Benson, who relies more upon her memory than her book-keeping, says she is sure she got Arabella Dobbs a place in East Boston several weeks ago

re that Arabella Dobbs and Jemima Dobbs are one and the same person, for it is very seldom that one come

aps it will be better to wait until you hear something more conclusive; but the suspense must be terrible for

m Mrs. Benson; and now, my darling, I re

h I could not remember if I tried; but they were all very affectionate and

in from baseball; so you must content yourself

am

ion,-going all over Boston, and East Boston too, and never saying she was tired, or an

is the loveliest woman I ever knew. But, Marion, I don't s

r she would have waited for the answer to that letter before she wrote me. I shall go up to auntie's as soon as I can; but I'm afraid it won't be before Saturday, for you k

ositions as you can, when you have a mind to, should hand in such a flat, silly thing as your las

y I'm particularly anxious to have

p to Aunt Bettie's before Saturday?" asked Flo

that if I wait, by that time the answer to that woman's letter

ntil then. But do you know it is after four o'clock, and the girls h

I don't know my part at all; haven't looked at t

your part better at sight than I shall after I've

ily ever play readily without their notes. Now for you to know a piece once is to kno

as the two went downstairs together, "for I have heard Aunt Sue compl

r music, and musical discussio