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Miss Million's Maid (v. 25); A Romance of Love and Fortune
Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune - v. 25 Author:Berta Ruck Volume: v. 25 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead and company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the or... more »iginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI ANOTHER RUMPUS! f Oh !" I said -- and felt myself blushing scarlet at the memory of all the absurd little incidents that were between me and this stranger. The incident of the garden-hose, and of my giving him a shower-bath with it the other evening; and how Aunt Anastasia had poured added cold water over him in a metaphorical manner of speaking. Then came the memory of how we had met the next morning on the top of the 'bus when I was chaperoning Million to her lawyer's. And of how the young man, chastened by my aunt's best iced manner the night before, wouldn't even have said " Good morning " unless I had addressed him. It was all very absurd, but confusing. He said, in that pleasant voice of his: " Good afternoon ! I wish to return some property of yours." " Of mine? " I said, puzzled. I wondered whether a bit of lace of ours or something of that sort had blown out of the window of No. 45 into the garden of No. 44. But the young man, putting his hand into his jacket pocket, took out and held in the palm of his hand the " property." It was an oval silver brooch, bearing in raised letters the name " Nellie." The young man said, " I noticed it on the top of the 'bus just after you got off the other morning; you must have dropped it " " Oh! Thank you so much," I began, taking the brooch. " It isn't mine, as a matter of fact, but " " Oh," he said pleasantly, " you are not ' Nel...« less