to do more, 'and as we can't agree where to go, and yet we must go somewhere
did you say half a cup?''Thanks,' said I. 'You were going to tell me what it was you settled.'
'We settled,' said the good lady, pouring out the tea without a moment's pause in her flow of talk, 'that the only course was—(cream I think you take, but no sugar? Just so)—was to put the whole matter
but stop, John shall read it all out to you. We've drawn up the agreement in writing—quite ship-shape, isn't it, John? Here's the document: John shall read it you—and mind your stops, there's a dear!'John put on his spectacles, and in a tone of gloomy satisfaction (it was evidently his own composition) read the following.
- 'Be it hereby enacted and decreed,
'That Susan be appointed for the business of choosing a watering-place for this season, and finding a New School for Angela.
'That Susan be empowered not only to procure plans, but to select a plan, to submit the estimate for the execution of such plan to the House-keeper; and, if the House-keeper sanction the proposed