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"One might think you were describing an Alderney cow. It's a pity she is not called 'Daisy' or 'Cowslip." "Girls are all alike," said Captain Du Meresq, sententiously. "Even you, my beloved Cecil, who are a woman of mind, can't stand my wild admiration of Cowslip." Cecil raised her eyebrows, and a scornful beam shot from the dark eyes that were her chief attraction.
Under the rude porch on a slab table stood a number of buckets, and there was a stool by the door. She took a bucket and the stool and walked away a few paces, the Alderney following. As she began milking she looked over her shoulder at the man watching her and said, "Won't you build a fire?" He gathered some wood and went into the cabin.
She even hoped to pay for it by and by, by instalments, but that she would not promise! and, partly amused, partly interested by the child's earnestness, the wealthy yeoman gave her, not as a purchase, but as a present, a very fine young Alderney. She then went to the lord of the manor, and, with equal knowledge of character, begged his permission to keep her cow on the Shaw common.
Among the girls in attendance was one who was different from the rest, just as an Alderney is different from a group of Devon heifers. She was no better, but she was different, that was all. She had come from a town, Miss Jennie Orton, aged seventeen, and she was spending the winter with the family of her uncle.
'Not so fast, Gladys. Come and see. They are all quite well. And the Alderney is my particular charge. Gladys blushed and smiled. 'You see I came home because you told me, and am as steady as old Time. Don't I look so? I am going to shave off my beard do you approve? 'No, said Gladys, laughing. She scarcely knew why she felt more at ease with Owen in her present than in her past position.
The moment he is gone, ware short round, and make the best of your way for Cape la Hogue, or Alderney; you will go three feet to his two, and, my life on it, by day-light you'll have him to windward of you, and then you'll be certain of him. Wait for no signals from me, but be off, as soon as it is dark.
"To conclude, the mild-eyed Alderney cow, who pastured in the field during the autumn months, would chew the cud of approbation over the- -hm for hours together, and people said it was no wonder at all that she gave such delicious milk and cream." Here a shout of supposed discovery broke from No. 5. "I've guessed, I know it!" But a "hush" from Aunt Judy stopped him short.
Nobody was ever so indiscreet as to call it anything else; and my Lord was too deeply absorbed in the Alderney beauties that stood knee-deep in the yellow straw of his farmyard, and the triumphant conquests that he gained over his brother peers' Shorthorns and Suffolks, to trouble his head about Cecil's attendance on his beautiful Countess.
The April baby, who has had a nursery governess of an altogether alarmingly zealous type attached to her person for the last six weeks, looked up from her bread and milk. "It sounds like islands," she remarked pensively. The governess coughed. "Majora, Minora, Alderney, and Sark," explained her pupil. I looked at her severely.
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