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'She's throwed up the sperrits, and she is feeling better, and she's more to 'ee than a child that isn't yours. 'She isn't! She's not so particular much to me, especially now she's lost the little maid! But Carry's everything! 'Well, ver' like you'll find her to-morrow. 'Ah but shall I? Yet he can't hurt her surely he can't! Well how's Car'line now? I am ready. Is the cart here?
"I could give more than a wedding dress if the Confederacy called for it, my dear," she answered. "Indeed, I'm not perfectly sure that I couldn't give the Major himself but go upstairs and wait for me while I send Car'line for the keys." She returned to the storeroom, and Betty went upstairs to wander leisurely through the cool faintly lighted chambers.
The remaining details of when and where were soon settled, Car'line informing him, for her ready identification in the crowd, that she would be wearing 'my new sprigged-laylock cotton gown, and Ned gaily responding that, having married her the morning after her arrival, he would make a day of it by taking her to the Exhibition.
And your room's ready fire and hot water, and young Cato to take Jeames's place. Car'line is making sugar cakes, and we shall have coffee for supper.... Hurry down, Edward, Edward darling!" Edward darling came down clean, faintly perfumed, shaven, thin, extremely handsome and debonair.
But that minx, Almiry, hed ben and let on abaout her own sarsy way er servin' on me, an' Car'line jest up an' said she warn't goan to hev annybuddy's leavin's; so daown I come ag'in. "Things was gettin' desper't by that time; fer aunt was failin' rapid, an' the story hed leaked aout some way, so the hull taown was gigglin' over it.
I was conceited enough to imagine that Miss Alvina, and her vis-a-vis, Miss Car'line, did not look altogether unfriendly; but the handsome face and magnificent curls of the young hunter were beside me; and it was no use taking the field against such a rival. I was not jealous of him, however, nor he of me.
Above, Dinah Brome and that old woman who had a reputation in Dulditch for the laying-out of corpses, decked the poor cold body in such warmth of white flannelette, and such garniture of snipped-out frilling as, alive, Car'line Kittle could never have hoped to attain to. These last duties achieved, Dinah descended, her arms full of blankets and pillows, no longer necessary above.
"And the las' time you telled me to walk out o' your house, I swore I'd never set fut in it again," Mrs Brome made answer. "But I ha' swallered worse things in my time than my own wards, I make no doubt; and you ha' come to a pass, Car'line Kittle, when you ha' got to take what you can git and be thankful." "Pass? I ha' come to a pass, indeed!" the sick woman moaned.
Depper shed as many tears over his old woman as would have been expected from the best husband in the world; and Car'line let her dying gaze rest on him with as much affection, perhaps, as if he had indeed been that ideal person. "There'll be money a-comin' in fro' th' club," were almost her last words to him.
The park trees that had been enclosed for six months were again exposed to the winds and storms, and the sod grew green anew. Ned found that Car'line resolved herself into a very good wife and companion, though she had made herself what is called cheap to him; but in that she was like another domestic article, a cheap tea-pot, which often brews better tea than a dear one.
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