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But I'll tell 'im, sir, and thank you kindly." And in a while, when Mrs. Snummitt had duly curtsied herself out of sight, Barnabas sighed, and turned once more to stare away, over broken roof and crumbling chimney, towards the glory of the sunset. But now, because he remembered poor little Miss Pell who had died because she was so friendless and hungry, and Mr.
Snummitt, who took it, glanced inside it, turned it upside-down, and rolled her eye at Barnabas eloquently. "What more?" he inquired. "Which I would mention, sir, or shall we say, 'int, as if you could put a little drop o' summat inside of it brandy, say 't would be doing a great favor." "Ah, to be sure!" said Barnabas. And, having poured out a stiff quantum of the spirit, he gave it to Mrs.
Snummitt! she sez and all of a twitter she was too, 'dear Mrs. Snummitt, sez she, 'I'm a-going away on a journey, she sez, 'but before I go, she sez, 'I should like to kiss you good-by, me being so lonesome, she sez. Which kiss me she did, sir, and likewise wep' a couple o' big tears over me, pore soul, and then, run away into 'er dark little attic and locked 'erself in, and done it!"
"Which my name is Snummitt," she repeated, bobbing a curtsy and momentarily eclipsing the rolling eye under the poke of a very large bonnet, "Mrs. Snummitt, sir, which though a widder I'm respectable and of 'igh character and connections.
Shrig?" Immediately the door became stationary and, after some brief pause a voice issued from behind it, a voice somewhat wheezing and hoarse. "Which your parding I ax, sir," said the voice, "which your parding I 'umbly ax, but it ain't, me being a respectable female, sir, name o' Snummitt, sir charing, sir, also washing and clear-starching, sir!"
But things was worse lately on account of 'er heyes getting weak. 'Mrs. Snummitt, she used to say, 'my heyes is getting worse and worse, she'd say, 'but I shall work as long as I can see the stitches, and then, Mrs. Snummitt, I must try a change o' scene, she used to say with a little shiver like.
Which me 'aving only one heye ain't by no manner of means to be 'eld ag'in me, seeing as it were took away by a act o' Providence in the shape of another lady's boot-'eel sixteen summers ago come Michaelmas." "Indeed," said Barnabas, seeing Mrs. Snummitt had paused for breath, "but what " "Which I were to give you Mr.
Snummitt and, nodding gloomily, she took down the brandy in three separate and distinct gulps, closed her eyes, sighed, and nodded her poke bonnet more gloomily than before. "Little Miss Pell, sir, 'ad a attic three doors down, sir, and pore little Miss Pell 'as been and gone and done it! Which do it I knowed she would." "Done what?" inquired Barnabas.
Well go and tell your noos to someone else as ain't so 'andsome, Mrs. Snummitt, say, as lives next door, a widder, respectable, but with only one heye, try Mrs. Snummitt." "Ah, perhaps she's in the room yonder," said Barnabas, "anyhow, I mean to see "
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