yet is that she can't see herself ever getting up to breakfast again. Mrs. Brown says of course she respects Amelia's religious views, but it's trying when Amelia wants to go to church, but doesn't see herself going, so has to stay at home. She says Amelia just loves to sew, but she can't see herself sewing any more, so she's given it all up. She says Amelia's got a superior mind—anybody can tell that only to see the way she's took to doing her hair—but she says it's a little hard on young Doctor Brown and her, who haven't got superior minds, to live with her. Amelia don't want to kill flies any more, for fear[Pg 11] they're going to be her blood relations a million years from now, and Mrs. Brown says she never was any good once a mouse was caught, but now she won't even hear to setting a trap; she says all things has equal rights, and if she feels a spider, some one has got to take it off her and set it gently outside on the grass. Oh, Mrs. Brown says, Amelia's very hard to live up to, even with the best will in the world. Mrs.—" [Pg 10] [Pg 11] Here Susan was interrupted by Brunhilde Susan, the minister's youngest child, who brought the evening milk and the evening paper. "There was a letter, so I brought that, too," said Brunhilde Susan. "A letter!" said Susan in surprise. "It's for Mrs. Lathrop," said Brunhilde Susan. "For me!" said Mrs. Lathrop in even greater surprise. "Yes'm," said Brunhilde Susan. A letter for Mrs. Lathrop was indeed a surprise, as that good lady had only received[Pg 12] two in the last five years. As those had been of the least interesting variety, she looked upon the present one with but mild interest. The next minute she gave a scream, for, turning it over as some people always do turn a letter over before opening it, she read on the back "Return to Jathrop Lathrop..." and her fingers turning numb with surprise and her head dizzy for the same reason, she dropped it on the floor forthwith. [Pg 12] Brunhilde Susan had turned and gone back down the walk. Miss Clegg, who had
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