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But I have not sworn not to go if you write to me that you are doing well at uncle's, then I'll come after you. But to go out into the fog, where one knows nothing well, I'm not fond of making changes anyway, and after all I'm doing fairly well here. But now let us consider how you are to get away." Damie's savings were very trifling, and Barefoot's were not enough to make up the deficiency.
My Damie?" "Yes, Barefoot's Damie," said the boy, bluntly; "and he promised that you would give me a kreutzer if I would run and tell you. So now give me a kreutzer." "My Damie will give you three." "Oh, no!" said the boy, "he's been whimpering to my grandfather because he hadn't a kreutzer left." "I haven't one now either," said Barefoot, "but I'll promise you one."
"Other sisters are helped by their brothers," she thought to herself, "and I but I shall show you this time, Damie, that you must stay where I put you, and that you dare not stir!" Such were Barefoot's thoughts as she hurried along; and at last she arrived at Coaly Mathew's.
John let the box stand, because he could not take it on his horse. But they packed Barefoot's possessions into the sack which she had inherited from her father. As they were descending the stairs together on their way out, Barefoot felt somebody quietly press her hand in the dark it was her mistress who was thus taking leave of her.
And there was, indeed, a perfect hailstorm of jeering, sometimes coarse, sometimes satirical, directed at Barefoot's Damie, whom people accused of having taken merely a pleasure-trip to America at the expense of the parish. Black Marianne alone received him kindly; her first question was: "Have you heard nothing of my John?" But he could give her no information.
"King Murdog, King of Ireland," says the Chronicle of Man, "had obliged himself, every Yule-day, to take a pair of shoes, hang them over his shoulder, as your servant does on a journey, and walk across his court, at bidding and in presence of Magnus Barefoot's messenger, by way of homage to the said King."
She promised to pay the loan that very day and to deduct it gradually from Barefoot's wages. Now at last Barefoot was allowed to look at herself. The mistress herself held the glass before her, and both of their faces glowed and gleamed with mutual joy. "I don't know myself! I don't know myself!" Barefoot kept repeating, feeling her face with both hands.
But she soon spoke a very different elegy concerning him; for it appeared that Farmer Rodel, who had for years been raising Barefoot's hopes concerning his will, made no mention at all of her in that document far less did he leave her anything. When Black Marianne went on with an endless tirade of scolding and complaining, Barefoot said: "It's all coming at once.
But his dog was with her in the kitchen all the time, and she fed the creature and stroked it and talked to it. "Yes, if you could only tell him everything, you would be sure to tell him the whole truth." The dog laid its head on Barefoot's lap, and looked up at her with intelligent eyes; then he seemed to shake his head, as if to say: "It is too bad, but unfortunately I cannot speak."
When it was the Eighty-second Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Wazir Dandan continued to bespeak Zau al-Makan on this wise, "And quoth the maiden to thy father, 'Bishr Barefoot's sister once went to Ahmad bin Hanbal and said to him, 'O Imam of the Faith, we are a family that spin thread by night and work for our living by day; and oftentimes the cressets of the watch of Baghdad pass by and we on the roof spinning by their light.
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