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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 VI BEANIE LOSES HIS HOME A WEEK or two went by, and I was as happy as a king?maybe I'd better say a president, as kings don't seem to be getting much fun out of life at present. I had had many homes, many masters and mistresses, but never a master like this one. He just suited me. I often used to wonder what it was about him that made me like him so much. I had seen men just as handsome, just as amiable, just as lovable?there was something I could not explain about it. When he looked at me with his deep-set grey eyes, I felt that I could die for him. He was my man affinity. He understood me, and he never believed anything against me unless it was very fully proved, and then?he always forgave me. His confidence in me made me want to be a better dog, and I stopped nipping Beanie on the sly, and gave up stealing Mrs. Granton's gloves and chewing them up. I didn't like her, and she didn't like me. What could you make of a woman who insisted upon being called Clossie instead of Claudia, which was her real name. Claudia has some dignity to it, but Clossie?itdidn't sound to me like a lady, and master just hated it, but he had to say it. They didn't get on very well together. I often heard the servants talking about it. Louis was for mistress, and the cook and the waitress and the girl who came to do mistress's hair and finger-nails were for master. She's a fraud, said cook emphatically. A woman her age ain't got no business lazing in bed till all hours of the morning, and when she gets up, what does she do? Fools round, putting in time, and then travels down town and wastes money shopping, or goes to the theatre. She don't do nothing for nobody all day long, the waitress would break in. It's self, self, self?do I look pretty?is my skin all right?a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217556071 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217556078 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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