? ? ? ? "You'll have to manage it, aunt."
? ? ? ? "I'll see what I can do to-morrow. He ought to prefer my nephew to a strange boy, seeing I have been twenty years in his service. I'll let you know as soon as I have accomplished anything."
? ? ? ? "I don't half like the idea of giving up my evenings. I don't believe I can stand it."
? ? ? ? "It is only for a little while, to get him interested in you."
? ? ? ? "Maybe I might try it a week, and then tell him my health was failing, and get him to do something else for me."
? ? ? ? "At any rate, the first thing must be to become acquainted."
? ? ? ? Thomas now withdrew, for he did not enjoy spending an evening with his aunt, the richer by five dollars, half of which was spent before the evening closed at a neighboring billiard saloon.
? ? ? ? If Mrs.
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