“Madame,” said she, “may I put her on a chair?”
“Yes, my dear,” said the woman.
She placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor in front of her, and kept perfectly quiet, without one word, in an attitude of devotion.
“Play now, Cosette,” said the stranger.
“Yes, I am playing,” said the child.
The woman now hastened to send her children to bed, then she begged permission to send Cosette, too.
Cosette went to bed, taking her Catherine with her.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A WOOD SLED
WASHINGTON GLADDEN
“Keeps coming right down, don’t it, Bill?”
Bill could not deny it, and did not wish to admit it; therefore, he said nothing.