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"It gives me pleasure, sir," said she, "to meet with you and your wife. It is so seldom that we find any one " She was interrupted by Mrs. Perkenpine, who stood behind her. The she-guide was a large woman, apparently taller than Matlack. Her sunburnt face was partly shaded by a man's straw hat, secured on her head by strings tied under her chin.
It has two compartments in it, and it is really as comfortable as a house, and as my sister wrote that she wished a female attendant, not caring to have her meals cooked by boys a very flippant expression, by-the-way I have engaged for her a she-guide." "A what?" asked Mrs. Archibald. "A person," said he, "who is a guide of the female gender.
"Well, then," said the she-guide, "I'm in for assertin'. When my husband was alive there was a good many things I wanted to do, and when I wanted to do a thing or get a thing I kept on sayin' so; and one day, after I'd been keepin' on sayin' so a good while, he says to me, 'Jane, says he, 'it seems to me that you're persistin'. 'Yes, says I, 'I am, and I intend to be. 'Then you are goin' to keep on insistin' on persistin'? says he.
Archibald, looking with amusement on the astonished faces about him, "we truly are." "Well," said the she-guide, seating herself, "if I'd stayed an old maid as long as that, I think I'd stuck it out. But perhaps you was a widow, mum?" "No, indeed," cried Mr. Archibald; "she was a charming girl when I married her.
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