Countess Kate

Transcribed from the 1902 Macmillan and Co. “Countess Kate and The Stokesley Secret” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1902
All rights reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, LONDON AND BUNGAY
Transferred to Macmillan and Co. , Limited , 1901. Reprinted , 1902.
“There, I’ve done every bit I can do! I’m going to see what o’clock it is.”
“I heard it strike eleven just now.”
“Sylvia, you’ll tip up! What a tremendous stretch!”
“Wha-ooh! Oh dear! We sha’n’t get one moment before dinner! Oh, horrible! oh, horrible! most horrible!”
“Sylvia, you know I hate hearing Hamlet profaned.”
“You can’t hate it more than having no one to hear our lessons.”