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However, Tess found at least approximate expression for her feelings in the old Benedicite that she had lisped from infancy; and it was enough. Such high contentment with such a slight initial performance as that of having started towards a means of independent living was a part of the Durbeyfield temperament.
"What?" "He air wantin' to see ye, Tessibel. Will ye go to him?" "Nope," Tess burst forth spontaneously. Myra looked at her curiously. "He ain't amountin' to much," she ventured, "but he air a pappy that air somethin', ain't it?" "Yep," mused Tessibel. "A daddy air more than a mammy." So had Tessibel and Myra been brought up to believe.
Not even to father could she have talked it all out, though he had patted her hand and acted like an angel when he paid for the bucket of candy that candy which none of them got even a taste of! That Tess and Arthur should eat up the candy which her own father paid for, made one more snarl in the whole inconsistent situation.
He was looking for the beggars, to pay them, when Tom Tripe's dog arrived and began hunting high and low for Tess. Trotters had something in his mouth, wrapped in cloth and then again in leather. He refused to give it to Dick, defying threats and persuasion both. Dick offered him food, but the dog had apparently eaten water, but he would not drink.
"And Billy Bumps, too, sister! Don't forget Billy Bumps," begged Tess from the porch. "We'll try it, anyway," said Ruth. "Here are all the shovels, and we ought to be able to do it." "Boys would," proclaimed Agnes. "Neale would do it," echoed Dot, who had come out upon the porch likewise. "I declare! I wish Neale were here right now," Ruth said.
In the terror of the thought that she would lose him again, Tess sank upon her knees beside him. This time he did not thrust her aside. The strong young hands pressed upon his shoulders, and the sensitive chin trembled. Tess turned her face up to his. "Don't!" he breathed hard. "Don't, Tess!" But the girl heeded him not. Of a sudden, Frederick raised his eyes and looked directly into hers.
They lifted the bed away from the wall, and one of the women danced around and around it rhythmically, surrounding Tess with what the West translates as "influence" the spell that all the East knows keeps away evil interference.
She don't know there is any such lady-relation yet. But it would certainly put her in the way of a grand marriage, and she won't say nay to going." "Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me."
After wrapping the infant closely in a warm cloth, Tess took it in her arms, and laid herself down beside Teola; and the trio slept as all youth sleeps, until the morning sun had been shining long in the window. "Be ye better now?" asked Tess, trying to stand Teola on her feet. "I am dreadfully ill yet," was the whispered answer. "But I want to see my baby.... And what shall I do with him?
"Boy, come straight here to me," Tess called, trying to pass the excited animal. The child picked up the rope fastened to his sled, gave it a jerk and started toward his mother. Frightened by the flash of the sled in the snow, the horse reared and plunged anew. "Drop that sled and get out of here!" Ebenezer thundered. "How many times must I tell you? Get out!"
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