[Transcriber's note: This is the second of a series of four novels bySusan Warner, all of which are in the Project Gutenberg collection:
1. What She Could
2. Opportunities
3. The House in Town
4. Trading]
OPPORTUNITIES,
A SEQUEL TO "WHAT SHE COULD."
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE WIDE WIDE WORLD," &c.
LONDON:
JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.
MDCCCLXXI.
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it." Ecc. ix. 10.
| CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV | CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI |
| CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII | CHAPTER IX | CHAPTER X | CHAPTER XI | CHAPTER XII |
OPPORTUNITIES.
CHAPTER I.
It was the morning after that Sunday when Matilda had been baptized.The girls came down to prepare breakfast as usual; Maria in a veryunsettled humour. She was cloudy and captious to a degree that Matildacould not understand. The kitchen was hot; the butter was soft; themilk was turned; the bread was dry. All things went wrong.
"It is no wonder the bread is dry," said Matilda; "it has been bakedever since last Friday."
"Thursday. I didn't say it was a wonder. Aunt Candy will have thebread dry. I hate it!"
"And it is no wonder the butter is soft, if you keep it up here in thekitchen. The kitchen must be hot, with this hot stove. But the milkmanwill be along directly."
"No, he won't. We always have to wait for him; or take the old milk.And I can't be bothered to keep the butter down cellar and be runningfor it fifty times in an hour. I have enough to do as it is. Whateverpossessed Aunt