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"And the pearls, the young chief's necklace, what became of that?" asked Dorcas. "It went back to Talimeco with the old chief's body and was buried with him. You see, that had been the signal. Ayllon had the necklace with him in the slack of his doublet. He thought it would be a good time after the feast to show it to the Cacique and inquire where pearls could be found.
If the secret were all my own Heaven knows, hateful as it is, how boldly I would risk all, and throw myself on your fidelity or your mercy I know not how you might view it; but it is different, Dorcas, at least for the present.
She had her lace in a little bag, and presently she sat down on an ottoman and took out her work. "You don't mean to say that child can knit lace? And oak-leaf, too, I do declare! What a smart little girl!" "Oh, she embroiders quite nicely, also. Hannah Ann, get your apron and show Cousin Dorcas." The apron was praised and the handkerchiefs she had marked for her father were brought out.
Never cleared the coffee-cups away last night. That's what happens when I'm not here to look after things." Poirot lifted his hand. "Since they have been left, Dorcas, leave them a little longer, I pray you. I should like to examine them." "Very well, sir." "What time did you go out last evening?" "About six o'clock, sir." "Thank you, Dorcas, that is all I have to ask you."
Dorcas did not wait till "to-morrow morning"; she could not bear to think of Griselda's unhappiness. From her mistress's room she went straight to the little girl's, going in very softly, so as not to disturb her should she be sleeping. "Are you awake, missie?" she said gently. Griselda started up. "Yes," she exclaimed. "Is it you, cuckoo? I'm quite awake."
"About Phil, of course. I won't tell you, for I believe you know," said Griselda. "Wasn't it you that sent him to play with me? I was so pleased, and I thought it was very kind of you; but it's all spoilt now." "But I heard Dorcas saying that your aunt is going over to consult my Lady Lavander about it," said the cuckoo. "It'll be all right; you needn't be in such low spirits about nothing."
And as she spoke her face flushed with enthusiasm. "I am going to take up your cause, and my friends in there, the ladies of the Dorcas Society, will stand by me, I know. I don't know what we shall do, but we are going to stand by you and your niece." Here was a friend worth having. The captain was very much affected, and was moved with unusual gratitude.
In the Merry Devil of Edmonton, a comedy, 4to, 1608, is an expression which goes some way to prove the correctness of this supposition: "I see by thy eyes thou hast bin reading little Geneva print;" and, that small ruffs were worn by the puritanical set, an instance appears in Mayne's City Match, a comedy, 4to, 1658. "O miracle! Out of your little ruffe, Dorcas, and in the fashion!
We went out through that door, locking both it and that of Mrs. Inglethorp's room as before. I took him down to the boudoir which he had expressed a wish to see, and went myself in search of Dorcas. When I returned with her, however, the boudoir was empty. "Poirot," I cried, "where are you?" "I am here, my friend."
She was a staunch supporter of the church, and, had her circumstances permitted, would have been a Scripture-reader or at least a district visitor. But the world was so much with her, in the shape of domestic necessities at Bellevue Lodge, as to render parish work impossible, and so the Dorcas meeting was the only systematic philanthropy in which she could venture to indulge.
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