Read "At Twelve Tonight" by Catherine Louisa Pirkis online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"I don't admire her in the least, Mattie; she's not at all my style," said Nellie, addressing her pretty little maid, with whom, like most girls brought up without companions of their own age, she was on very confidential terms.
It was the evening of the day on which the newly-found cousins had arrived, and Nellie, as she dressed for dinner, was speaking her mind freely about them.