As she has lived with us
for a long time, and used to take me for walks when Mademoiselle
had the toothache, which was often, because she hated to walk,
she knows most of the Familey affairs, and is sometimes a
nusance.
So, while I said my prayers, she looked in my Check Book.
I was furious, and snached it from her, but she had allready
seen to much.
"Humph!" she said. "Well, all I've got to say is this, Miss
Bab. You'll last just twenty days at the rate you are going, and
will have to go stark naked all year."
At this indelacate speach I ordered her out of the room,
but she only tucked the covers in and asked me if I had brushed
my teeth.
"You know," she said, "that you'll be coming to me for
money when you run out, Miss Bab, as you've always done, and
expecting me to patch and mend and make over your old things,
when I've got my hands full anyhow. And you with a Fortune
fritered away."
"I wish to think, Hannah," I said in a plaintive tone.
"Please go away."
But she came and stood over me.
"Now you're going to be a good girl this Summer and not
give any trouble, aren't you?" she asked.
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