Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life by Horatio Alger
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"Twenty dollars a quarter," said Mr. Harrison; "that I consider
reasonable." "It is satisfactory to me," was the cooper's reply, "and, if you have no objections to me as a tenant, I will engage it at once." "Far from having any objections, Mr. Crump," was the courteous reply, "I shall be glad to secure so good a tenant. Will you go over and look at the house?" "Not now, sir; I am somewhat in haste. When can we move in?" "To-day, if you like." His errand satisfactorily accomplished, the cooper returned home. Meanwhile the landlord had called. He was a little surprised to find that Mrs. Crump, instead of looking depressed, looked cheerful, rather than otherwise. "I was not aware you had a child so young," he remarked, looking at the baby. "It isn't mine," said Mrs. Crump, briefly. "The child of a neighbor, I suppose," thought Colman. Meanwhile he scrutinized closely, without appearing to do so, the furniture in the room. |
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