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Not that Rachel really knew what that meant exactly, but the master was pleased, and that was enough, and all of a sudden, when she was putting up some dishes in the keeping-room closet, she began to sing. Mrs. Henderson nearly dropped the dish she was wiping. "Why, my child!" she exclaimed, then stopped, but Rachel didn't hear her, and sang on.
"Yes," Temperance bawled. "She is a good solid gal; but I can't recollect her christened name." "It is Cassandra." "Why, 'taint Scriptur'." "Why don't you go and take off your things?" Temperance asked, abruptly. "I'll leave them here; the fire is agreeable." "There is a better fire in the keeping-room." "How are you, Mr. Handy?" father inquired, coming in.
Cabot tell me everything she knows," said Polly hoarsely, and not looking back; "she shall let me have every syllable. It can't be true!" She threw wide the door of Mrs. Higby's "keeping-room" where that lady was engaged in putting a patch on the chintz-covered sofa, and talking gossip with a neighbor at the same time. "I thought as this was a-going so fast, Mr.
To Mistress Mabel's questioning she would answer she had been to see some one who was ill in the village, for if she and Mary heard Harry was likely to return to his home, they would oppose it, she knew. The household had become somewhat accustomed to Maud's erratic doings by this time, and so little wonder was expressed that she did not come into the keeping-room to supper.
So I thought I'd turn over and take another snoose; and do you know, Squire, that is always a dreamy one, and if your mind ain't worried, or your digestion askew, it's more nor probable you will have pleasant ones. When I went into the keeping-room, I found Jessie and her sister there, the table set, and everything prepared for me. "Mr Slick," said the elder one, "your breakfast is ready."
"Well, darling," said Dora, "you can have it without theft, for we can make for ourselves a garden of spices anywhere, and then you know who will come in and eat our pleasant fruit." Emma smiled, and nodded a good-by, as she left the room. "What a singular girl is Emma," said one of the young ladies who looked from the keeping-room window, as she entered the wagon.
Another silence, during which the visitor carefully noted the land, stock and crop items in the paper, then took his leave. But not till he had cast a lingering look behind and said: "This is about the comfortablest place a feller could drop into, in my opinion." It was some minutes after when the truant Cicely re-entered the little keeping-room, her cheeks and eyes bright with happiness.
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