Von Rosen laughed. He knew what was coming, or thought that he did.
"I see," said Aunt Susan, "that you have forty-two copies of Margaret
Edes' book, _The Poor Lady_, and I have always thought it was a very
silly book, and you can't exchange them for every single one is
autographed."
It was quite true. Poor Margaret Edes had autographed the forty-two.
She had not even dreamed of the incalculable depths of a lie.
THE END
[Transcriber's note:
The following spelling inconsistencies were present in the original
and were not corrected in this etext:
wordly
ensconsed/ensconced]
End of Project Gutenberg's The Butterfly House, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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