It's after two."
"All the better, for here's a dinner to match the biggest kind of an
appetite! See here, and here!"
He spread out with intense satisfaction sandwiches, fried chicken,
cakes, doughnuts, and cheese, besides jellies and fruit, while Molly
fairly howled with delight, and even Sara's eyes shone happily; for,
unless you have lived for a week on salt herring and potatoes, topped
off by a long fast since breakfast, you cannot understand how good those
things looked to the hungry children.
"But, Morton, you didn't tell Mrs. Norris, did you?" Sara asked in a
distressed tone. "I didn't want"--
"Now, don't you worry, Sara! I sold her the goose, and got my money--
here it is; but this is another kind of game, and while we're eating,
I'll tell you the whole story," which he at once proceeded to do, for,
hungry as they were, they all fell to with scant ceremony.
The next morning the blond lady, being bereft of both escorts, started
out for a stroll on her own account.
You have before this, doubtless, divined her to be the wife of that same
little man Sara had met on the cliff; and we now formally introduce her
as Madame Grandet, wife of Professor Leon Alphonse Grandet, of the
Academie des Sciences at Paris, who was now prosecuting his geological
studies in New England.
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