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"And why should you be so idle as to think yourself so, silly boy?" said Dame Suddlechop; "but 'tis always thus fools and children never know when they are well. Why, there is not one that walks in St.
Dame Suddlechop had by this time finished her cordial it was not the first she had taken that day; and, though a woman of strong brain, and cautious at least, if not abstemious, in her potations, it may nevertheless be supposed that her patience was not improved by the regimen which she observed.
"Come, come, mine honest Jin Vin come, my good boy," said the dame, in a soothing tone, "never mind these trankums a frank and hearty London 'prentice is worth all the gallants of the inns of court." "I was a frank and hearty London 'prentice before I knew you, Dame Suddlechop," said Vincent; "what your advice has made me, you may find a name for; since, fore George!
It was the evening of the same day when Margaret had held the long conference with the Lady Hermione, that Dame Suddlechop had directed her little portress to "keep the door fast as a miser's purse-strings; and, as she valued her saffron skin, to let in none but " the name she added in a whisper, and accompanied it with a nod.
But tell me yourself, good Jenny, are you not something tired of your young lady's frolics and change of mind twenty times a-day?" "In troth, not I," said the patient drudge, "unless it may be when she is a wee fashious about washing her laces; but I have been her keeper since she was a bairn, neighbour Suddlechop, and that makes a difference."
The Conspiracy. We must now introduce to the reader's acquaintance another character, busy and important far beyond her ostensible situation in society in a word, Dame Ursula Suddlechop, wife of Benjamin Suddlechop, the most renowned barber in all Fleet Street.
"Nay, sweetheart, it is not me," said the patient Benjamin, "but the Scots laundry-maid from neighbour Ramsay's, who must speak with you incontinent." At the word sweetheart, Dame Ursley cast a wistful look at the mess which was stewed to a second in the stewpan, and then replied, with a sigh, "Bid Scots Jenny come up, Master Suddlechop.
Its highest and most important duties were of a very secret and confidential nature, and Dame Ursula Suddlechop was never known to betray any transaction intrusted to her, unless she had either been indifferently paid for her service, or that some one found it convenient to give her a double douceur to make her disgorge the secret; and these contingencies happened in so few cases, that her character for trustiness remained as unimpeached as that for honesty and benevolence.
"And so the fire went out, too," said Jenny. "Which was the most natural of the whole," said Dame Suddlechop; "and so, to cut the matter short, Jenny, I'll carry over the little bit of supper that I was going to eat.
"No," replied Ursula, "but Dame Judith is at home and the strange lady, whom they call Master Heriot's ghost she never goes abroad." "It is very true, Dame Suddlechop," said Jenkin; "and I believe you have guessed right they say that lady has coin at will; and if Marget can get a handful of fairy-gold, why, she is free to throw it away at will."
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