Mrs. Herndon's Income

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Excerpt from Mrs. Herndon's Income: A Novel Randy was gaunt and lean with never-ending work, and silent as Madam Coolidge herself, but with a soft spot in her dry old heart for this old fashioned child, who made no complaint and seemed to have no wishes nor fancies of her own. Randy remembered Margaret's mother, who also had been an old-fashioned child, with a gleam, at times, of the Coolidge temper, and who had seemed always to have as little real place in the house as the second Margaret, who had no trace' of her young mother save in the clear, dark eyes, with their direct and questioning gaze. Fixed routine ruled the house. The Squire had married, late in life, nobody knew precisely why, Miss Martha Pulsifer, long the mistress of a small private school, her one pleasure in which had been the constant formulating of new rules and revising of old ones, the code at last reaching such length that it really required a three years' course to keep it. The same passion remained when she became mistress of the old Coolidge mansion, and the child that in time intruded itself in the silent dwelling was re garded chie¿y as an interruption. The Squire loved it in dumb, undemonstrative fashion, and might even have roused enough to take active interest in the little life. But a network of rules was woven about it from the beginning, and the one or two occasions on which he took it into his arms were made so wretched, first by fear that he should in some way break or otherwise damage the mysterious production, and last by the deep distrust with which he was viewed by both Madam Coolidge and Randy, that he ceased to make advances, and retreated perma uently into the library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.