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124 fully. "Imagine Mrs. Grubb disturbed about anything so trivial as a lost child! If it had been a lost amendment, she might have been ruffled!"

"What is she doing about it, and in what direction is she searching?"

"She is doing nothing, and she will do nothing; she has gone to a Theosophy lecture, and we are to find the twins; and she says it’s your fault, anyway, and unless you prove more trustworthy the seraphs will be removed from your care; and you are not to send me again as a messenger, if you please, because I am an impudent, grovelling little earthworm!"

"Rhoda!"

"Yes’m!"

"Did she call you that?"

"Yes’m, and a jellyfish besides; in fact, she dragged me through the entire animal kingdom; but she is a stellar being,—she said so."

"What did you say to her to provoke that, Rhoda? She is thoroughly illogical and perverse, but she is very amiable."

"Yes, when you don’t interfere with her. You should catch her with her hair in waving-pins, just after she has imbibed apple