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"And, pray, who is this?" she demanded, looking from one to the other. "Well, 'this' happens to be the hired girl, an' she's got some biscuits in the oven," explained Susan crisply. "If you'll be so good, ma'am, I'll show you upstairs to your room." "Daniel!" appealed Mrs. Colebrook, plainly aghast.
"Is Dr. Sandford your cousin, Miss Randolph?" was the question which came in upon my thoughts. "No, ma'am," I answered in extreme surprise. "Is he any relation to you?" "He is my guardian." "I think Dr. Sandford told me that your father and mother are abroad?" "Yes, ma'am; and Dr. Sandford is my guardian." We had climbed two flights of stairs, and I was panting.
By each ran a stream of water that trickled from his clothes, and the streams, joining each other, formed aimless rivers upon the floor. The eye of a captain opened. "Come in, ma'am," he said without moving. She wondered whether she should. The eye of a lieutenant opened. "Come in, ma'am," he said, and rose. "Take my chair." "Could you tell me if there is any hotel?"
Observing that the man next him had left his meal untouched, I offered the same service I had performed for his neighbor, but he shook his head. "Thank you, ma'am; I don't think I'll ever eat again, for I'm shot in the stomach. But I'd like a drink of water, if you aint too busy." I rushed away, but the water-pails were gone to be refilled, and it was some time before they reappeared.
'And would you, Ma'am, said the Captain, taking down the tin canister in which he kept his cash' from the top shelf of the cupboard, 'be so good as offer eighteen-pence a-piece to the little family all round? If you could make it convenient, Ma'am, to pass the word presently for them children to come for'ard, in a body, I should be glad to see 'em.
Sim Gage by now had somewhat quieted his wild team, and he looked at her, his face puckered into a perturbed frown. "Now, now," he said, "don't you take on, little woman." He was abashed at his daring, but himself felt almost like tears, as things now were. "It'll all come right. Don't you worry none. Don't be scared of these horses a-tall, ma'am; I can handle 'em all right.
And, now I think of it, you can sit up to-night until I tell you to go to bed." "Yes, ma'am." Miss Starbrow was moving towards the door. Then she paused, and finally came back and sat down again, and drew Fan against her knee as before. "Fan," she said, "when you speak about me to others, and to me in the presence of others, or of the servants, call me Miss Starbrow.
Though uncertain that any one were to blame, she found fault with every absent friend. They were all thoughtless or indolent. "When do you write to Colonel Brandon, ma'am?" was an inquiry which sprung from the impatience of her mind to have something going on. "I wrote to him, my love, last week, and rather expect to see, than to hear from him again.
'On the demonstration we have this day received of your superior judgement, Ma'am, said Rupert, 'though indeed we could hardly have doubted it before. 'Pray let me understand you, Mr. Merton, said Mrs. Hazleby.
Shure he's discharged, ma'am, an' his heart's broke entirely, an' mother says we're all to go with the captain to-morrow, an' he swears he'll kill himself before he'll go, an' I can't find him, ma'am. It's almost dark now." "Go back and tell your mother I want her instantly. We'll find your father. Go!" she repeated, as the child shrank and hesitated. "Here, the front way!"
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