Miss Million's Maid by Bertha Ruck
Entertaining story of a little London slavey who suddenly falls heir to
great wealth. She engages her impoverished young mistress as her maid, who
advises her well both as to matters of dress and her heart. The maid, incidentally,
has many adventures and a romance of her own.
Million. Always a
perfectly hopeless one. It's always, always that some millionaire may leave me
a fortune one day, and that I shall be very rich, rolling in money."
"D'you think so
much of money, then, Miss Beatrice?" said Million, bustling over the
black-and-white chequered linoleum to the range, and setting the lid on to her
saucepan full of potatoes. "Rich people aren't always happy----"
"That's their
own fault for not knowing how to spend the money!"
"Ah, but I was
readin' a sweetly pretty tale all about that just now. 'Love or Money,' that
was the name of it," said Million, nodding at the kitchen-table drawer in
which she keeps her novelettes, "and it said these very words: 'Money
doesn't buy everythin'.'"
"H'm! It would
buy most of the things I want!" I declared as I sliced away at my
cucumber. "The lovely country house where I'd have crowds of people, all
kinds of paralysingly interesting people to stay with me! The heavenly times in
London , going
everywhere and seeing
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