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The Widow Married; A Sequel to "the Widow Barnaby".
The Widow Married A Sequel to the Widow Barnaby Author:Frances Milton Trollope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Ward and Lock Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It ha... more »s 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: "That's no bad sight, early as it is for dining. I am as hungry as a horse, Miss Elizabeth. Where am I to sit ? Wliat, here ! -- next to the old lady ? Let me sit at the bottom and carve, shall I ? You shall see if I don't do it fit to be a married woman. La! what a nice dinner ! What a pity it is we have got no beaux!" No opposition being made to Miss O'Donagough's placing herself at the bottom of the table, she sat down, and began vigorously to attack a leg of lamb, intended as the piece de resistance of the entertainment. " Will you not take some fish, Miss O'Donagough ? " demanded Miss Wilmot. " Yes, if there is butter and sauce with it," replied Martha ; " but some of you must have mutton, 'cause I've cut this piece off. Here, little one, you shall have it." Emily looked into the face of her governess, but said nothing. " Send it to me, my dear, if you please," said Miss Wilmot; "but do not cut any more yet. The young ladies both take fish." The dinner, sauce and all, being greatly to Miss O'Donagough's satisfaction, her spirits rose as it proceeded, and she went on in a sort of crescendo movement, eating and talking, till she had got into the highest possible good humour. "Well, after all, I think we shall be monstrous good friends, Elizabeth ? " said she, putting a third glass of custard into her plate; " and I don't know but what it may be better fun dining in this way, and eating as much as I...« less