Olivia Delaplaine a Novel

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Olivia Delaplaine a Novel
Fawcett Edgar
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Genres: Fiction » Children

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: m. It was some little time before Olivia regained her self-control. Meanwhile Mrs. Ottarson had drawn her to a sofa and had used upon her arts of so volubly and naturally soothing a sort that if her wretchedness had not been severe as it was, the girl might have broken into laughter at some of the endearing diminuti

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ves by which she now heard herself addressed. When her tears had ceased to flow she sat with quivering underlip and stared straight before her. She seemed to be asking some silent question of the future's very silence. Mrs. Ottarson, stirred more by this mood than by the stormier one, at length showed her own suspenseful alarm. " My sakes alive, 'Livia! if you don't jus' want to drive me clean out o' my seven senses you'll let me know what is the matter." And then Olivia gave a start, turning again to her aunt, " I must have frightened you so, Aunt Thyrza," she said tremulously. " It was selfish of me. I should recollect how your nerves and strength have been tried far more than mine, with those many nights of watching." " O, bosh," said Mrs. Ottarson, roughly intolerant of being over-valued. "I'm as strong as a horse, and never had a nerve in my life. Now do tell me what the trouble is. It's something those two said, of course." "Yes," answered Olivia. There was a little more silence, and then she impetuously cried : "Think of it, Aunt Thyrza! Papa has left nothing â?? or it's even less than that! Mr. Dela- plaine had for.years been warning him, they say, that he was over-spending his income. And finally his partner had written him a letter, very direct and plain, which brought us back to America for the last time. I recollect the letter. It came to us last August when we were at Zermatt. It made papa almost ill; his disease was beginning then, and he c... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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