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Mandy’s feeble knock at the door was answered by her mistress in person who had now banished all traces of her ride and its resultant cogitations. The two women, with Hosmer and Grégoire, sat out on the veranda after supper as their custom was during these warm summer evenings.
Neither had heard a noiseless step approaching, and they only became aware of an added human presence, when Mandy’s small voice was heard to issue from Mandy’s small body which stood in the mingled light and shadow of the door-way. “Aunt B’lindy ’low supper on de table gittin’ cole.” “Come here, Mandy,” cried Melicent, springing after the child. But Mandy was flying back through the darkness.
Anyways, I’ll sen’ Ar’minty ’roun’ to-morrow, sho.” Melicent was not without the guilty remembrance of having one day playfully seized one of the small Mandy’s bristling plaits, daintily between finger and thumb, threatening to cut them all away with the scissors which she carried.
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