Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The gentleman at whom this assertion was flung in a rather angry tone did not answer his sister-in-law. He sat gazing reflectively at the pattern in the rug and seemed neither startled nor annoyed. Mrs. Merrick a pink-cheeked middle-aged lady attired in an elaborate morning gown knitted her brows severely as she regarded the chubby little man opposite; then suddenly remembering that the wrinkles might leave their dreadful mark on her carefully rolled and massaged features she banished them with a pass of her ringed hand and sighed dismally.