My Brother's Keeper by Amy Lothrop Author:Anna Bartlett Warner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ' Which reminds me that I am keeping you from yours,' said the lady. ' How is Thornton? He never comes to see us now, but I cannot blame him. Give him my best love, my dear.' And Mrs. Arnet's eyes sought her handkerchief, and her handkerchief sought her eyes, -- but that was probably the fault of the aromatic vinegar. And too affected for more words, the lady bent her head graciously, and left the room, giving Rosalie a wide berth as she went. In another minute Rosalie was up stairs. There sat Thornton, reading the newspaper by the side of the sleeping Hulda. ' It is an extraordinary thing to see me, isn't it?' said he, in answer to Rosalie's first look of pleasant surprise. ' But I thought you had gone out ?' ' One must go out in order to come in,' said Thornton. ' If you will promise to come down to dinner to-day, and let me order it when I like, I will come home.' There needed no answer but what the eyes gave him. ' Ton look sorrowful, Alie,' said her brother. ' What has that woman been saying to you ?' ' She left her best love for you,' said Rosalie. Thornton's lip curled with no attempt at disguisement. ' I hope she did not come on purpose to bring it,' he said. ' If her love were in the market, the report would be, ' Supply light, and the market dull.'' ' She says,' continued Rosalie, ' that if Marion had been at home nothing could have kept her from coming here.' Thornton's eye flashed, but he only said, ' Of course.' His sister looked at him, and then at the fire, and then at him again: ' Oh Thornton ! will you never give that one little promise ? for her sake -- for mine ?' He ans...« less