ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryMrs. Mumpson also fled to her room.?She felt that the proper course for her at this juncture was a fit of violent hysterics; but a prompt douche from the water pitcher, administered by the unsympathetic Jane, effectually checked the first symptoms. “Was ever a respecterble woman–” “You aint respectable,” interrupted the girl, as she departed. […]
The animal shook its head threateningly as it advanced.?Again the widow’s shrieks resounded.?This time Holcroft was about to come to the rescue, when the beleaguered woman made a dash for the top of the nearest fence, reminding her amused looker-on of the night of her arrival when she had perched like some strange sort of […]
It struck the lintel over the widow’s head, was shattered, and sent down upon her a shower of villainously smelling sparks.?Mrs. Mumpson shrieked and sought frantically to keep her calico wrapper from taking fire.?Meanwhile, Mrs. Wiggins rose and took a step or two that she might assist should there be any positive danger, for she […]
Mrs. Wiggins turned slowly and ominously upon her. “Ye call me a disrupterbul female hag’in, han ye vont find hit ‘ealthy.” Mrs. Mumpson prudently backed toward the door before delivering her return fire. “Woman!” she cried, “are you out of your mind??Don’t you know I’m housekeeper here, and that it’s my duty to superintend you […]
At first, there was an ominous silence in respect to words.?Portentous sounds increased, however, for Mrs. Wiggins strode about with martial tread, making the boards creak and the dishes clatter, while her red eyes shot lurid and sanguinary gleams.?She would seize a dipper as if it were a foe, slamming it upon the table again […]
