Ten years of a lifetime Author:Margaret Hosmer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX. Addie's Sympathy. " Well, did you stay to wake the corpse ?" was Miss Tod's greeting, as Addie entered the workroom, at dusk, and found all the... more » place lighted and business proceeding with uninterrupted velocity. " It's well I had all the folds to stitch, you yonng sorrow, or I should take a year's growth out of you for staying," said Miss Debby, warningly. " Here's Kitty Donahue been driven wild, with no one to help her in the kitchen, and you off gallivanting round the streets, staring in at every shop-window, I suppose." "Then you suppose wrong," said Addie, shortly ; "and there's your note." " And this is my note, is it ?" said Miss Debby, eyeing her, half amused and half angry ; " and you think it's best to put a bold face on it, after being away long enough to drive any but a set of Jobs, as we are, crazy." " I'm not putting a bold face on, Miss Debby," said Addie, decidedly—" not a bit of it; but I think it would be so much better to see if I'm wrong first, and blame me afterwards, rather than fly at me before you know the reason why." " Phew !" whistled Miss Tod, " we're not going to take things as we have done; and there's a new kink iii the little pig's tail. Well, Addie dear, before your dignity comes on you so strong that a body will be afraid to ask you to do any thing for them, will you please to bring me the length of a flea's halter of black silk cord out of the box there ?" " Oh, Miss Tod," said Addie, mournfully, as she placed the required amount of trimming on the milliner's knee, " how sad it must be to die young, and make every one wretched you leave behind!" " Is every one wretched up in Worth-street ? It's more than I expected if they are. I've always found that people who werehard to please about little things, and could...« less