The Orphans-2

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3 2058 words 2020-03-19 12:46:02

The servant was pleased with his good nature in this trifling instance, and remembered it long after it was forgotten by Edmund.  Whenever his master wanted to send a messenger anywhere, Gilbert (for that was the servant’s name) always employed his little friend Edmund, whom, upon further acquaintance, he liked better and better.  He found that Edmund was both quick and exact in executing commissions. One day, after he had waited a great while at a gentleman’s house for an answer to a letter, he was so impatient to get home that he ran off without it.  When he was questioned by Gilbert why he did not bring an answer, he did not attempt to make any excuse; he did not say, “There was no answer, please your honour,” or, “They bid me not to wait,” etc.; but he told exactly the truth; and thoug……

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