Even nowadays, he says,the cost, of feeding and clothing children is more than many of theirparents can contrive, and if this sort of thing is to be permitted--!Eh?"You see he makes my mere passing suggestion into a positive proposal.And then he calculates how much a pair of breeches for a growing lad oftwenty feet high or so will cost.
She stood as if she could not go near him. He had alwayspuzzled her so, he and his ways, and this seemed only another enigma.Then the truth dawned on her, she shrieked... read more