Bob Younger's Fate — page 142: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. | 133 ‘There it is again! Really, Mrs. Ferry, I am be- ginning to think you are a great flatterer.”’ ‘Not at all, child; I have simply fallen in love with you, and I know my daughter is also very much pleased with you, although she is somewhat. more reserved in her statements than 1; and I think that when-she praises a servant that servant must be a good one.”’ | | “Tam so glad to have won your approbation; I was really afraid I had offended Miss Myra a few minutes ago.” Why??? 3 ‘She caught me staring at a portrait in her room, and she seemed so cold in her manner when I spoke of it that | was fearful she had taken offense at my curiosity.” : Mrs. Ferry sighed. ‘It was a sad, very sad, affair, and one that Myra dislikes to discuss with any one; but I do not think you offended her. You mistook silent grief for haughtiness. ”’ ‘“Oh, he was her lover, then?’’ “Yes, they would have been married in a short time had it not been for his untimely death. To make the affair more sad, it occurred while we were absent on a trip to Europe, or rather while we were on our way home.”’ : “How mournful!’’ as the ready tear came into her eye. ‘‘But one good thing seems to be that she bears up under it wonderfully well.”’ ‘‘“Myra is a woman who does not wear her griefs or her joys upon her sleeve; but I must say I was . surprised myself, for I thought the shock would have thrown her into a fever.”’ “Was she satisfied that her lover was dead ‘“Mercy, child! «what do you mean?”’ Mary confusedly hastened to explain. | “T suppose you knew that the corpse had been mutilated when found?”’ “Oh, yes, we knew that; but to my knowledge Myra never questioned. his death, nor did any of us.”’ “Tt seems peculiar that it was never mentioned.” “Nevertheless it was not spoken of among us. I 999 EComicbooks.co