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She, too, was somewhat frightened by the appearance of the young lady, who was her Phoebe's child, yet was so unlike any other scion of the Tozer race; and felt greatly disposed to curtsey and say "Ma'am" to her.
Without losing a moment, I seized the robe of the Princess Royal, and, making her a low curtsey, at the same moment I placed myself directly before her, and followed the Queen step by step to her carriage; everybody was laughing, but I had no notion of what it was at. When we returned home, the Queen went to find my aunt, and, seating herself upon the bed, burst into a loud laugh.
'An' I wish you joy av the perjury, sez she, duckin' a curtsey. 'You've lost a woman that would ha' wore her hand to the bone for your pleasure; an' 'deed, Terence, ye were not thrapped.... Lascelles must ha' spoken plain to her. 'I am such as Dinah is 'deed I am! Ye've lost a fool av a girl that'll niver look at you again, an' ye've lost what ye niver had, your common honesty.
Will you not smile and throw a crumb of comfort to your bond-woman?" "I have had nothing to say until now," he replied, very quietly, over his coffee cup. She only laughed at him and swept the ground with a low curtsey. "Thy slave listens. Speak! To what decision has my lord and master arrived?" she asked.
Chloe excused herself, but was informed by her mistress that it was what she liked. 'For the first two years, she resumed, 'I could hardly speak a syllable. I stammered, I reddened, I longed to be up in my room brushing and curling my hair, and was ready to curtsey to everybody.
But " here the door opens, and in a large cap bristling with ribbons, with her best chestnut front, and her best black silk gown, on which her gold watch shines very splendidly, little Miss Honeyman makes her appearance, and a dignified curtsey to her lodger.
"Oh! wretched creature that I am," said the Princess. "If I had only taken the handsome Prince! Oh, how unhappy I am!" Then the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw of his ragged clothes, and stood forth in his royal apparel, looking so handsome that she was obliged to curtsey. "I have learned to despise you," he said.
I heard voices as I opened the door, grandmamma was sitting at the writing-table speaking to the cook, who stood beside her, a rather fat, pleasant-looking woman, who made a little curtsey when she saw me. But grandmamma looked up, for her, rather sharply 'Why, have you finished upstairs already, Helena? she said. 'You had better go into the dining-room for a few minutes, I am busy just now.
"I am very glad to see you, Ruth," I answered, offering her my hand, which she seemed afraid to take, "welcome to Plover's Barrows, my good cousin Ruth." However, my good cousin Ruth only arose, and made me a curtsey, and lifted her great brown eyes at me, more in fear, as I thought, than kinship. And if ever any one looked unlike the heiress to great property, it was the little girl before me.
I was glad to get away from the Marquis, because he looked desperate, and you can't trust foreigners, they have pistols and things in their pockets, and he might have shot me. When we got back to our seats, the défilé began and I took the Vicomte's arm to go and make our curtsey to the Comtesse and the Baronne.
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