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'I've got a bank-book what is worth lookin' at! And then she stood up. 'I should like to meet your brother John, she did say; 'perhaps ye'll think it over, Mrs. Domeny? "'Oh, 'e es, I'll do that, said I. She did bid me good-bye then, an' so soon as ever she was gone I called Robert in and telled en the whole tale." "I d' 'low he were pleased," put in Mrs.
An' then she looks down at the table-cloth 'It wants darnin', says she. "Tis easy seen as a woman's hands be needed here. "'They are, truly, says he, lookin' at her so wistful-like. "'Well, we'll see, says she, noddin' at him very kind." "An' did she really look over everything Mrs. Domeny, my dear?" interrupted Mrs. Cross eagerly. "She must ha' been a wonderful sensible woman!"
She'd a-buried her first poor husband an' a very fine man he was by all accounts nigh upon six year afore ever she took up wi' brother John." "Indeed!" ejaculated Mrs. Cross, in a tone which signified that the fact redounded greatly to the credit of the late Mrs. John Domeny. "'Ees, indeed," repeated the narrator triumphantly. "But where was I? 'To be sure, Mrs.
'There never was a Domeny yet, says I, 'as wasn't a credit to the country. 'Ah, says she, sighin' again, 'and I d' 'low, ma'am, they do make very good husbands. "'Ye mid be sure they do, says I; 'I can speak up for my own man, and I think Mrs. Tom and Mrs. Ned can do the same for theirs. "'Be they all married? axes she, very quick.
Well, I couldn't say no, ye can understand, so Robert got Janie Domeny, brother Tom's oldest girl, to come of a marnin' to see to en, an' I did go to poor Susannah. Well, 'twas at Susannah's, if you'll believe me," said Mrs. Domeny, with a solemnity which would have befitted the announcement of an event of national importance, "as I first came across poor Sarah." "Well!" ejaculated Mrs.
Cross, "about her admirin' of en, ye know." "Well, he be a very modest man, Robert be; he didn't take much notice. 'Fancy that! says he, when I did tell en." "Fancy that!" had also been Mrs. Cross's inward comment, on first hearing of the effect produced by Mr. Robert Domeny on the impressionable Mrs. Maidment; for if truth be told he was anything but an Adonis.
Poor Sarah was a wonderful hand at managin' pigs, says he, 'an I never see'd her equal for bringin' up chicken. No! he says, 'I don't regret it." "Well, he couldn't say no fairer than that," commented Mrs. Cross admiringly. "Yes," she added, drawing a long breath, "'tis just what you do say, Mrs. Domeny it be a reg'lar romance."
'Ees, as I often do say to my 'usband, I am as clingin' as as a worm. So, as I tell ye, we did take to each other fro' the first. Well, when Susannah was a-gettin' about, after the ninth day, ye know, I went home along, and Sarah did say to I, 'I'll come and see you, Mrs. Domeny, if I mid make so bold, she says in her lady-like way. "'To be sure, Mrs. Maidment, says I "
Domeny, says she, 'if ye'll go to the expense of a few buckets of whitewash, an' give a lick o' paint to the door here, I think it 'ull do very well. So they settled the day an' everythin' there an' then." "Well, to be sure!" ejaculated Mrs. Cross. "It do sound jist like a book; an' talkin' o' that, I suppose she did show en the bank-book?" "She never gave en so much as a sight o' it, Mrs.
I'll jist ax en to come to tea next Sunday, and I'll tell en as a very nice body what we've lately got acquainted wi' be a' a-comin' to tea, too; an' I'll jist set down, careless-like, as she have got a bank-book what is worth seein'. Jist no more nor that. "'Ah, that 'ud maybe do very well, says Domeny, and we did put our heads together, and between us the letter was wrote.
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