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"Somethink chronic!" said Mrs. Jablett. "Feels as if it was a-opening and a-shutting, a-opening and a-shutting, and when I sit down I feel as if I should bust." This picturesque description of her sensations not wholly inconsistent with her figure gave the clue to Mrs. Jablett's sufferings.
'We was in a deep talk at the moment, continued Blore, 'and Natty had just brought up that story about old Jeremiah Paddock's crossing the park one night at one o'clock in the morning, and seeing Sir Blount a-shutting my lady out-o'-doors; and we was saying that it seemed a true return that he should perish in a foreign land; when we happened to look up, and there was Sir Blount a-walking along.
'I don't know, said I, 'unless it's the gentleman has got tired of waiting and gone. 'If he's gone, he won't want the water, she said. So down I set the pitcher, and up-stairs I come; and sure enough he was gone, or so I thought then. But who knows, sir, if he was not in that room or the drawing-room, which was dark that night, all the time I was a-shutting up of the house?"
Well, that's summat to laugh at, it is our servant a-shutting us out of our own grounds. 'No servant o' yourn! 'Come, lass, what do you mean? 'He be old Silas's miller, and what's that to thee? With these words the girl made a spring on the hasp of the padlock, and then got easily over the gate. 'Can't you do that, cousin? whispered Milly to me, with an impatient nudge. 'I wish you'd try.
O' my word, my brain is no more troubled with ghosts, black or white, than our gracious Queen's" here I doffed my cap "is with snails and slugs;" and here I plucked a slug from a vine-leaf and set my heel on't. "Nay, nay!" quoth she, a-shutting of her white eyelids so tight that all the long black hairs on them stood straight out, like the fringe on Marian's Sunday mantle in a high wind.
"Somethink chronic!" said Mrs. Jablett. "Feels as if it was a-opening and a-shutting, a-opening and a-shutting, and when I sit down I feel as if I should bust." This picturesque description of her sensations not wholly inconsistent with her figure gave the clue to Mrs. Jablett's sufferings.
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