Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. It would betray total ignorance of the habits and customs of ladies like Mrs. Hodgson, to suppose that she could live on terms of intimacy with the Vickers ladies and not give an account of all the bewildering news she had heard; besides, being a sensible woman, she was fond of a good gossip. It is a means of mental improvement not much recommended by the authorities, but as it is, practically, the only way in which information enters the feminine head, it must be made use of by those who desire to be informed. And people on gossiping terms have the implied understanding that each side shall contribute as much as they can. On Saturday morning, therefore, she took her way down the street, as she expected the "men-folks" were out of the way, and, as she expected also, Emma came out of the garden, and Mrs. Vickers out of the kitchen with greater interest than common. "Ob, aunt! what have you been doing?" To which Mrs. Hodgson answered, demurely, "I've been very innocently employed. What's the matter?" "Well, but I wish you would not do so, Margaret," Mrs. Vickers began, in a half-crying condition; "it does make the house so unhappy." "Make the house unhappy because I go out to dinner!" "But why did you take Josiah with you? and here they have been quarrelling so oh, dear! And James says you're a pack of designing women." Mrs. Hodgson hastened to assure her that she had contributed nothing to Josiah's disobedience. "I did not take Josiah; he took himself, to my great astonishment." "Josiah went of himself! then they're regularly acquainted?" "Philip Creed told me he wanted to come to meet Eliza." "To meet Eliza!" "I don't quite know all about it. Philip Creed asked me to meet the lady he is engaged to, who is a friend of mine, and then came Josiah...
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