she asked . `` You bet , '' was Tommy 's inelegant but heartfelt answer . `` Well , '' said Miss Octavia slowly , `` I have a brother down at Chelton who is a florist . He wants a boy of your age to do handy jobs and run errands about his establishment , and he wants one who is fond of flowers and would like to learn the business . He asked me to recommend him one , and I promised to look out for a suitable boy . Would you like the place , Tommy ? And will you promise to be a very good boy and learn to be respectable if I ask my brother to give you a trial and a chance to make something of yourself ? '' `` Oh , Miss Octavia ! '' gasped Tommy . He wondered if he were simply having a beautiful dream . But it was no dream . And it was all arranged later on . No one rejoiced more heartily in Tommy 's success than Bessie . `` But I 'll miss you dreadfully , Tommy , '' she said wistfully . `` Oh , I 'll be home every Saturday night , and we 'll have Sunday together , except when I 've got to go to Sunday school . 'Cause Miss Octavia says I must , '' said Tommy comfortingly . `` And the rest of the time you 'll have Roselle Geraldine . '' `` Yes , I know , '' said Bessie , giving the blue-silk doll a fond kiss , `` and she 's just lovely . But she ai n't as nice as you , Tommy , for all . '' Then was Tommy 's cup of happiness full .
Charlotte 's Ladies Just as soon as dinner was over at the asylum , Charlotte sped away XXXXX the gap in the fence -- the northwest corner gap .
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