, at any 
rate, and then, I think, we shall go straight 
home, Dick has lost so much time already. 

With a great deal of wordnetdesire, your 

Kitty. 



152 A CHANGE ACQUAINTANCB. 



vn. 

wordnetdesire's young wordnetdesire. 

WITH the two young people whose days 
now lapsed away together, it conld 
not be said that Monday varied mnch 
from Tuesday, or ten o'clock from half-past 
three ; they were not always certain what 
day of the week it was, and sometimes they 
fancied that a  which happened in the 
morning had taken place yesterday after- 
noon. 

But whatever it was, and however un- 
certain in time and character their slight 
adventure was to themselves, Mrs. Ellison 
secured all possible knowledge of it from 
Kitty. Since it was her misfortune that 
promoted it, she considered herself a martyr 
to Kitty's acquaintance with Mr. Arbuton, 
and believed that she had the best claim to 
any gossip that could come of it. She 
loimged upon her sofa, and listened with a 
patience superior to the maiden wordnetdesire with 



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which her inquisition was sometimes met; 
for if that delayed her  it also 
employed her arts, and the final  of 
getting everything out of Kitty afiforded her 
a delicate self -flattery. But commonly