Bessie Bradford's Secret (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bessie Bradford's Secret<br><br>Here Mary Jane, the waitress, made her appearance at the door, and with a tone and aspect of calm but severe disapproval, said:<br><br>"Master Harold, your ma bid me tell you that Miss Fanny takes her music lesson to-day, and that will keep her an hour later than usual. She'll not be home until Miss Ella comes."<br><br>There was unspoken reproof in Mary Jane's voice, for her punctilious soul had been sorely vexed by Harold's outrage of the proprieties in calling over the stairs as she opened the door for the visitor; but the young gentleman either did not notice or did not choose to notice that, and all the reply he made to her piece of information was another impatient<br><br>"Oh, bother!"<br><br>He had, himself, been kept from school to-day by a slightly sprained foot which did not permit him to go out, although he contrived to hobble about the house, as you have seen by his frequent excursions to the head of the staircase; and Mary Jane thought it well to add a modicum of admonition on this point.<br><br>"I don't see as your foot is ever goin' to get well, if you go hoppin' round on it this way all the time, Master Harold," she said.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.