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The Little Lady of the Big House (Hardcover)
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The Little Lady of the Big House (Hardcover)
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From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel
on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the
pier-end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have
taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with
growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On
the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in a temperature
perhaps half a degree colder than mine. And there was no tug.
Possum, the fox-terrier puppy Galbraith had so inconsi-derately
foisted upon me, whimpered and shivered on my lap inside my
greatcoat and under the fur robe. But he would not settle down.
Continually he whimpered and clawed and struggled to get out. And,
once out and bitten by the cold, with equal insistence he whimpered
and clawed to get back. His unceasing plaint and movement was
anything but sedative to my jangled nerves. In the first place I
was uninterested in the brute. He meant nothing to me. I did not
know him. Time and again, as I drearily waited, I was on the verge
of giving him to the driver. Once, when two little girls-evidently
the wharfinger's daughters-went by, my hand reached out to the door
to open it so that I might call to them and present them with the
puling little wretch.
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