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"Which well I know it, sir, and I'm going to speak," said Cook, with dignity; "and if I'd known before Polly 'Opley your keeper's wife's daughter, Sir Orkus," she continued, turning to the General. "Oh yes, yes, yes, I knew Polly when she was a baby," said the old gentleman, nodding at the girl, who courtesied to him; "but if you know anything about this this terrible affair, speak out."
"Yes, yes, yes," said my uncle impatiently; "but do you know anything about the watch?" "Which I'm telling you, sir," cried Cook, "though not a word did I know till Polly 'Opley comes just now, when I see it all as plain as pie-crust, and I says to her, `Polly, I says, `they're all in the libery now, and you shall come and tell 'em the whole truth."
You see I knowed as Master Burr was shut up, something about some trouble or scrape as boys will be boys, and always was, but being busy in my kidgen, and plenty to do, and the young gentlemen all forbid to say what it was about, so as I never knowed till this morning, when Polly 'Opley comes and tells me all about it, as Mr Lomax goes and tells her father your keeper, sir and Polly only this morning, and she never knowed it before, and then came on and told me something as'll make you all ashamed of treating a poor boy like that."
"Oh, yes, ma'am, I know," cried Cook defiantly, as she reached back and caught somebody's arm just outside the door. "Here, you come in, Polly 'Opley; there's nothing to be ashamed of, my dear. You come in." Polly Hopley, dressed in her best, suffered herself to be dragged in, and then, after whispering, "Do adone, do, Cook," began to make bobs and courtesies to everybody in turn.
One of the young gents'll go with you, I dessay." "I'll go with her," said Mercer, and they hurried away. "There," said Hopley, as he finished his rough dressing of the wound, "I can't do no more, and we can't carry him to my place. We must wait." "Oh, Master 'Opley, sir," groaned the unfortunate man, "is it very bad?" "Wait and hear what the doctor says, when he comes. I didn't do it, did I?"
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