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Chapter Eleven.
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Tells of bold Plans, followed by bolder Deeds.
Months passed away, and Miss Pritty, sitting in her little boudoir sipping1 a cup of that which cheers, received a letter.
“I know that hand, of course I do. How strange it is there should be such a variety of hands—no two alike, just like faces; though for my part I think that some faces are quite alike, so much so that there are one or two people who are always mistaken for each other, so that people don’t know which is which. Dear me! What an awful thing it would be if these people were so like that each should forget which was the other! Nobody else being able to put them right, there would be irretrievable confusion. What do you want, eh?”
The first part of Miss Pritty’s mutterances was a soliloquy; the query3 was addressed to her small and only domestic with the dishevelled head, who lingered at the door from motives4 of curiosity.
“Nothink, ma’am. Do you wish me to wait, ma’am?”
“No;—go.”
She went, and Miss Pritty, opening the letter, exclaimed, “From my nephew, Edgar! I knew it. Dear fellow! I wonder why he writes to me.”
The letter ran as follows:—
“Dear Aunt,—You will doubtless be surprised to receive a letter from me. It must be brief; the post leaves in an hour. Since I saw you we have had a charming voyage out, but at the last we ran on a rocky island off the coast of China, and became a total wreck5 in a few minutes.”
At this point Miss Pritty gasped6 “oh!” and fainted—at least she went into a perfect semblance7 of the state of coma8, but as she recovered suddenly, and appealed to the letter again with intense earnestness, it may have been something else that was the matter. She resumed her perusal:—
“We succeeded in getting a
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