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So after her I goes, to give her her handkercher which I thought it was best to give it intor her own hands, than to put it anywhere in her room, because I didn't know nothing about this forring nuss o' hern; and you know yourself, ma'am, as we ought to be cautious in dealing with strangers." "Yes, yes! Go on! go on!" gasped Sybil.
"Hooray, Aunt Katie, is that you a-ridin' in a coach as bold as brass?" some wayside laborer would shout. "As bold as brass yourself!" would be the irate retort of the old woman, nodding her head that was adorned with a red and yellow bonnet, from the window. "Hillo, Jim! that's never you, going to forring parts as large as life?" would sing out another. "Yes! Good-by!
So the forring nuss, as wasn't worth her salt, comes screaming after me to come and do something for the baby. Of course I went and did what was right and proper for the poor little suffering creetur; and when I had put him to sleep, I thinks about his neglectful mother, and so I ups and goes after her.
"Now I'll tell you, jest as I got it, this arternoon, first from Uncle Jovial, and then from Mrs. Spicer, and then from Madam Brudenell herself, and last of all from my own precious eyesight! 'Pears like Mr. Herman Brudenell fell in long o' this Lady Hurl-my-soul Hurt-me-so, I mean, while he was out yonder in forring parts.
"Beg pardon, sir, but this must be forring money," said the landlady, turning a five-franc piece on her palm with suspicious curiosity. "Foreign! Is it possible?" The stranger dived again into his pocket, and apparently with some difficulty hunted out half-a-crown. "Sixpence more, if you please, sir; three brandies, and bread-and-cheese and the ale too, sir." "How stupid I am!
"Yes, why didn't I, ma'am; which I wish I had, and would a done if it hadn't a been for that forring nuss a coming outen her room, and a screeching after me: "'Missus Winterblossom! Missus Winterblossom! which I allus told that huzzy as I wasn't a 'missus, but a 'miss, nor likewise a 'blossom, but a 'rose. Howsever, there she was, a yelling at the top of her voice, 'Missus Winterblossom!
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