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I shall be out all day, and should not give much trouble." The porter went away and spoke to some of his mates, and presently returned with one of them. "You're wanting a room I hear, sir," the man said. "I have a little house down the Old Kent Road, and my missus lets a room or two. It's quiet and clean, I'll warrant you. We have one room vacant at present."

So the two wended their way to the kitchen in great trepidation, and Tidy, stepping round to the sitting-room, timidly informed her mistress of the arrival, adding in most beseeching manner, "Please, Missus, don't whip her, 'caus she's so sorry." "You mind your own business, little sauce-box, or you'll catch it too.

When the news came to her master's home that Richmond had fallen, she said: "Missus an' all was cryin', and say da catch Jeff. Davis. An' I hurried de supper on de table; an' I say, Missus, can Dilla wait on table till I go to de bush-spring an' git a bucket o' cool water? She say, 'Hurry, Mill; an' I seed 'em all down to table afore I starts.

Perhaps, if I was not feverish I should not be awake, tossing about, one half of the night and spend the other half in troublesome dreams. If my little missus were here, I dare say she would give me some solemn, good advice. You would, wouldn't you, Little Missus?" One of his many jokes had been to call her his "little missus" because she had such an old-fashioned air.

Just them three. That's all. The rest be hanged, for I don't know what they're in the world for. Master was born, I suppose, for to marry missus. If I thought he loved her properly, I might get to love him in time. But he should ha' made a deal more on her, and not been always reading, reading, thinking, thinking. See what it has brought him to!

"Missus Gray say how the supper is all ready, sir," said the man, setting down the box. As Ishmael was also quite ready, he followed the negro downstairs into the sitting room. Hannah was already in her seat at the head of the table; while behind her waited a neat colored girl. Reuben stood at the back of his own chair at the foot of the table, waiting for Ishmael before seating himself.

"And with the same result, Missus," observed the machine-man, putting the plate between the clippers, which, closing quietly, snipped off about a foot of iron as if it had been paper. There was, however, a crunching sound which indicated great power, and drew from Mrs Marrot an exclamation of surprise not altogether unmingled with alarm.

"Run away if you want to, and I will go to the missus and tell her that you've got something of hers some of her gold things. You won't lie me down, either, like you done the last time, for I seen you have 'em." This dreadful threat reached the ears of the thief and stopped his flight. He turned about and faced the overseer.

"Go downstairs now, there's a good girl; and I'll tell you in the morning. I'll think it over. Go to bed early and have a long, nice sleep missus will let you now. It isn't Monday yet; we have plenty of time to talk it over." She looked up at him with large, appealing eyes, uncertain, but calming down. "Do, now, there's a dear." He stroked her wet cheek soothingly.

"Now, who have been a telling you lies?" inquired Maxley severely. "My missus, for a farthing. I'm not a thousand-pound man; I'm a nine-hundred-pound man; and it's all safe at Hardie's." Here he went from his roar to his whisper, "I don't hold with Lunnon banks; they be like my missus's eggs: all one outside, and the rotten ones only known by breaking.