Bliss, and Other Stories

candle; the stairs rang to their climbing feet. Isabel and Lottie lay

ing to be any sh

ot to-

dragged her grandmother down to her and kissed her und

the old woman, tucking her

oing to leave

h. Go to

have the do

ud whispering voices came from downstairs. Once she heard Aunt Beryl's rush of high laughter, and once she heard a loud trumpeting from Burnell blowing

ay my prayers i

God only excuses you saying your prayers in bed

esus mee

a littl

, simpl

e to com

o back, their little behinds

s tired, but she pretended to be more tired than she really was-letting h

ired I am-

rden a young man, dark and slender, with mocking eyes, tip-toed among the bushes, and gathered the flowers into a big bouquet, and shipped under her window and held it up to her. She s

ht, buttoning. And then, as she lay down, there came the old t

hance. . . . The new governor is unmarried. . . . There is a ball at Government hou

place dirt cheap, Linda. I was talking about it to little Wally Bell to-day and he said he simply could not understand why they had accepted my figure. You see land about here is

heard every wo

leaned over her and

old of his head by the ears and gave him a quick kiss. H

slipped his arm under he

id the faint voice

s hung from the door-peg like a hanged man. From the edge of the blanket his twisted toes protrud

from the servant gi

o bed was th

Not asl

r head under the grandmother's arm and gave a little squeak. But the old woman only pressed her fain

ark tree, called: "More pork; more pork." And far away in the bus