Tenterhooks

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Tenterhooks, by Ada LeversonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: TenterhooksAuthor: Ada LeversonRelease Date: November 8, 2003 [eBook #10021]Language: EnglishChatacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TENTERHOOKS***E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sarah Lewis, and Project Gutenberg Distributed ProofreadersTenterhooks[Book 2 of The Little Ottleys]by Ada Leverson1912TO ROBERT ROSSCHAPTER IA Verbal InvitationBecause Edith had not been feeling very well, that seemed no reason why she should be the centre of interest; andBruce, with that jealousy of the privileges of the invalid and in that curious spirit of rivalry which his wife had so oftenobserved, had started, with enterprise, an indisposition of his own, as if to divert public attention. While he was atCarlsbad he heard the news. Then he received a letter from Edith, speaking with deference and solicitude of Bruce'srheumatism, entreating him to do the cure thoroughly, and suggesting that they should call the little girl Matilda, after a richand sainted—though still living—aunt of Edith's. It might be an advantage to the child's future (in every sense) to have agodmother so wealthy and so religious. It appeared from the ...