Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 258
ADOLPHUS LOOKED HAPPY AND COMFORTABLE believe you know what has become ofour beautiful Silver Paws! The accusedrose stiffly to his full height, regarded her with the gravely innocent expression of anoutraged deacon, and then, turning hisback deliberately upon her, gave himself upagain to the… … HE HAD BECOME WARMLY DEMONSTRATIVE be good, they argued. It is not natural.There must be something on his conscience!For this was Adolphuss way of raising asmoke-screen, as it were, to hide his evildeeds. They had observed this in the past.It was all very humiliating to a proud soullike Adolphus,…
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