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And Agatha concluded with another stifled giggle. "Agatha!" was all that the indignant Amphillis could say in answer. She could hardly have told whether she felt more vexed or astonished. The bare idea of such a thing, evidently quite familiar to Agatha, was utterly new to her.
"But, Rica! that were to tell a lie." "Never a bit of it! Man can't tell a lie by holding his peace." "Nay, I am not so sure thereof as I would like. This I know, he may speak one by his life no lesser than his words." "Amphillis, if thou blurt out this to my Lady, I'll hate thee for ever and ever, Amen!" said Ricarda. "I must meditate thereon," was her cousin's answer.
She was apparently not pleased with the freedom of the question. "She was a very troublesome person," said she. "Nothing could stay her; she was ever restless and interfering. But these be matters too high for a young maid such as thou. Thou wert best keep to thy broidery and such-like duties." Harvest Home the sixteenth of August arrived when Amphillis had been a week at Hazelwood.
"There is therein writ a Scripture, that shall bear you safe through all perils of journeying, and an hair of a she-bear, that is good against witchcraft; and the carnelian stone appeaseth anger. Trust me, it shall do you no harm to bear it anigh you." Amphillis, though a sensible girl for her time, was not before her time, and therefore had full faith in the wonderful virtues of amulets.
Amphillis was going slowly upstairs to her turret, carrying her little work-basket, which was covered with brown velvet and adorned with silver cord, when she saw Kate standing in the window of the landing, as if she were waiting for something or some person. It struck Amphillis that Kate looked unhappy. "Kate, what aileth thee?" she asked, pausing ere ere she mounted the last steps.
While Mrs Margaret was selecting from the stock of gipsers a pretty red velvet one with a silver clasp, price half-a-crown, Perrote came quietly into the hall, and stood beside Amphillis, a little behind Lady Foljambe, who had not heard her entrance. "Here are de alners, Madame," said the lively little Breton. "Blue, green, black, white, red, tawny, violet. Will your Ladyship choose?
"Mistress Perrote, wit you how my cousin came hither?" "Why, by reason my Lady Foljambe sent to thine uncle, to ask at him if thou hadst any kin of the father's side, young maids of good birth and breeding, and of discreet conditions, that he should be willing to put forth hither with thee." Amphillis felt as if her mind were in a whirl.
She bade me be well ware that I gat me in no entanglements of no sort," said Amphillis, laughing a little; "but in good sooth, I see here nothing to entangle me in." "She gave thee good counsel therein. There be tangles of divers sorts, my maid, and those which cut the tightest be not alway the worst. Thou mayest tangle thy feet of soft wool, or rich silk, no less than of rough cord.
"Cannot the stupid thing take them forth by herself?" "I bade her not do so," explained her sister, "but call one of us she is so unhandy. Go thou, Ricarda, or she'll be setting every one wrong side up." Ricarda, with a martyr-like expression which usually means an expression very unlike a martyr's rose and followed Amphillis.
"Well, enemies, then," said Agatha, with a giggle. "Come, go into hall and see who they be, and then tell me." Amphillis obeyed, and to her still greater surprise, found herself in the presence of Mr Altham and Regina. "Ah, here she cometh!" was her uncle's greeting. "Well, my maid, I am fain to see thee so well-looking, I warrant thee. Can'st love a new aunt, thinkest?"
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