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Here's that Ankaret I've told her ten times o'er to wash the tubs out, and get 'em ready for the pickling, and I come to see if they are done, and they've never been touched, and my lady sitting upstairs a-making her gown fine for Sunday! I declare, I'll " Her intentions were drowned in an equally shrill scream from Miss Ankaret. "You never told me a word not once!
But I'll tell thee what if some o' them fighting fellows as goes up and down a-seeking for adventures, 'd just take off Ankaret and Mildred well, I don't know about El'nor: she's been better o' late and eh, but they couldn't take Her, or I'd ha' given th' cow into th' bargain, and been right glad on't and if me and Emma and Bertha could ha' settled down in a bit of a house somewhere, and been peaceable Come, it's no use hankering over things as can't be.
Beyond providing that there was a supply of some sort of food, and that they were confined within the walls of the Castle, Hepburn did not trouble his head about his prisoners, and for many weeks they had no intercourse with any one save Archie Scott, an old groom of their mother's; Ankaret, nurse to baby Andrew; and the seneschal and his wife, both Hepburns.
Jean was still excited, but she was, with all her faults, very fond of her sister, and obeyed Lady Drummond in being as quiet as possible. She seemed to take it as a matter of course that Elleen should have her strange whims. 'Mother used to beat her for them, she said, 'but Nurse Ankaret said that made her worse, and we kept them secret as much as we could.
Mildred, won't you help?" "Well, I don't mind if I do," was the rather lazy answer. But Ankaret and Susanna declined to touch the work, the latter cynically offering to lend her apron to Avice. As Avice scrubbed away, she began to regret her errand. To be afflicted with such a lifelong companion as one of these lively young ladies would be far worse than solitude.
And, Avice if thou knows of any young man as wants to go soldiering, and loves a fray, just thee send him o'er to th' smithy, and he shall ha' the pick o' th' dragons. I hope he'll choose Ankaret. He'll get my blessing!" Aunt Filomena seemed to have washed her hands of her youngest daughter. She never came near them; and Avice thought it the better part of valour to keep away from the smithy.
"Didn't offer good enough; and She" by which pronoun he usually designated his vixenish wife "wouldn't hear on it. Emma's bound, worse luck! I could ha' done wi' Emma. She and Bertha's the only ones as can be peaceable, like me." "Mildred's still at home, then?" "Mildred's at home yet. And so's El'nor, and so's Susanna, and so's Ankaret; and every one on 'em's tongue's worse nor t'other.
There was, unusual luxury, a chimney with a hearth and peat fire, and a cauldron on it, with a silver and a copper basin beside it for washing purposes, never discarded by poor Queen Joanna and her old English nurse Ankaret, who had remained beside her through all the troubles of the stormy and barbarous country, and, though crippled by a fall and racked with rheumatism, was the chief comfort of the young children.
"What dost thou yonder, thou slatternly minx?" returned the first. "I'll mash every bone of thee, if thou doesn't come in this minute!" "Then I sha'n't!" shrieked the second voice. "Two can play at that." "Who is Ankaret?" asked Father Thomas of the smith. "She's th' eldest o' th' dragons that's our Ank'ret," said Dan in the same half-frightened whisper.
Partly scolding, partly caressing, partly bemoaning the condition of her young ladies, so different from the splendours of the house of Somerset, Ankaret saw that Eleanor was as fit to be seen as circumstances would permit; as to Jean and Mary, there was no trouble on that score.
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