Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER TV. The deeds we do, the words we say - Into still air they seem to fleet: 'We count them ever past? But they shall last? In the dread judgment they And we shall meet Lyra Ixngcentiuii. Bur our antiquarian researches were brought to a sudden conclusion by the appearance of Airs. Roberts at the door, whose cold eye seemed to say, she comprehended at a glance that we were in mischief, and no effort should bo wanting on her part to thwart our further confidence. That much she looked, the following she said: Mr. Rutledge desires to know how the young lady i, and whether she is ready to see him ? She'll be ready in one minute, said Kitty, hurrying nervously the retarded business of arranging my hair. Mrs. Roberts stationed herself at the fire, and threefold increased Kitty's nervousness, and my trepidation, by the stony gaze she fixed upon us. At last, however, the operation was concluded, and Kitty helped me to the sofa, and regulated the light from the window, put away my dressing- gown, and gave the last touches to the room; while Mrs. Roberts looked on sardonically, and then told Kitty to go and call her master. I had hoped this order of things would have been reversed, and that Mrs. Roberts herself would have gone to summon my dreaded visitor, leaving me a moment's time to recover my composure, under the genial influence of Kitty's sturdy courage, which to do her justice, she had not long been disarmed of. Aa it was, the housekeeper's efforts at conversation wore not of an enliven ing character, her first remark being, that Kitty was much of a chattcr-box, and she should speak to the master to give her altogether downstairs work to do, where there would bo nobody to be hindered or bothered by her tattle. I tried to remonstrate, bi.i...