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That's true; ain't it, Mr. Slick? "'Guess so, sais I. "'Well then, I asked myself this here question: Can I sarve my fellow citizens best by bein' minister to Peach settlement, 'tendin' on a little village of two thousand souls, and preachin' my throat sore, or bein' special minister to Saint Jimses, and sarvin' our great Republic and its thirteen millions?
That's true; ain't it, Mr. Slick? "'Guess so, sais I. "'Well then, I asked myself this here question: Can I sarve my fellow citizens best by bein' minister to Peach settlement, 'tendin' on a little village of two thousand souls, and preachin' my throat sore, or bein' special minister to Saint Jimses, and sarvin' our great Republic and its thirteen millions?
Some of the men who crowded round the counter laughed, others partially choked, when the strapping Terence said in a hoarse whisper, "Whist, mother, be civil; don't ye see that it's ladies, no less, is sarvin' of us?" "Please, ma'am, can I 'ave some coffee?" asked a modest soldier's wife, who looked pale and weary after the long voyage, with three children to look after.
I gets tired sooner than I used to do since they took to hangin' me. How have they bin sarvin' you out since I last saw ye?" "Not near so badly as they have been serving you, old boy," said Miles, as he sat down and began to detail his own experiences. "But tell me," he added, "have you heard anything of our unfortunate comrades since we parted?" "Nothing at least nothing that I can trust to.
How strange and deceptive, and how full of the subtlest delusions, are the workings of the human heart! "And now, Anthony," proceeded the priest, "while I think of it, let me speak to you on another affair." "I see, sir," replied Corbet, somewhat querulously, "that you're determined to prevent me from sarvin' you. If my mind changes, I won't do it; so stick to your own business first.
"When did I see them, is it? Bedad, what with sarvin up the liquor and keeping me counters dry and swate, I never see them at all." "That's so, Ross," chorused the crowd again, to whom the whole proceeding was delightfully farcical.
"Den he 'gun ter call up de mo'ners, an' dey come too! Mun, de whole yeath wuz erlive wid 'em: de white folks dey went up; an' de niggers dey went up; an' de pater-rollers dey went up; an' de king he went up; an' dey all come thu an' got 'ligion; an' fum dat day dem folks is er sarvin' de Lord.
"Ay, it's aisy said, take it; but not to say what'll I do wid it, when I have it; however, that's the man I am, an' I know how it'll end wid me sarvin' every one, workin' for every one, an' thinkin' of every one but myself, an' little thanks or gratitude for all I know I'm not fit for sich a world but still it's a consolation to be doin' good to our fellow-creatures when we can, an' that's what lightens my heart."
The last paragraphs, he said, he affectioned and approbated with all his heart. "It is rather tall talkin' that," said he; "I like its patronisin' tone. There is sunthin' goodish in a colonist patronisin' a Britisher. It's turnin' the tables on 'em; it's sarvin' 'em out in their own way.
There was momentary silence. Would he shut himself in his room for the night, or would he come into the study? At last the door opened and Mandy hastened to place a chair for him. "Ah's 'fraid you'se mighty tired," she said. "Oh, no," answered Douglas, absently. "Mebbe you'd like Mandy to be sarvin' your supper in here to-night. It's more cheerfuller."
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