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Come in and help me explain to Candace that all of us want her, and all of us are glad to have her stay." "Indeed, we do. Cannie, I can't talk about it, for it's like a bad dream from which I have waked up, and I don't like to recall it; but I never shall forget how good you were to me that horrible day. It was you who persuaded me to go to mamma.
"His son Fergus, sir I hope Miss Mary is betther, sir that his son Fergus and his father, by all accounts, gave them a warmer reception than they expected." "But was none of O'Driscol's family hurt nor anybody else?" asked Purcel. "No, sir, it seems not and indeed I'm main glad of it." "D n you, Cannie," exclaimed the other, between jest and earnest, "why did you give me such a start?
I took it for granted that she was being entertained, somehow." "I'm afraid both of us find it pretty easy to forget Cannie," remarked Gertrude. "Well, I shall try to do better another time." "CANNIE," said Mrs. Gray, a few days after the sailing-party, "would you like to study French this summer, with Marian for company?"
Cannie may be shy and awkward; she may not know how to face a room full of strangers gracefully, such things are not hard to learn, and she will learn them in time; but of one thing I am very sure, and that is, that if you were her guest at North Tolland instead of her being yours at Newport, she would be quite incapable of any rudeness however slight, or of trying to make you uncomfortable in any way.
She had no sooner gone, than the peddler, with a shrug of satisfaction, exclaimed, in a subdued but triumphant voice: "Oh! by the hokey I've done her, and for that you must suffer, Lilly darlin'. Come now, you jumpin' jewel you, that was born wid a honey-comb somewhere between, that purty chin and beautiful nose of yours throth it must have a taste, for who the dickens could, refuse the Cannie Soogah, and before Lilly, who, by the way, was nothing, loath, could put herself in an attitude of defense, he had inflicted several smacks upon as pretty a pair of lips as ever were pressed.
"Y-es," replied Cannie; but she said it more because she saw that a yes was expected of her, than because of any real pleasure at the idea. Like most girls who have had scanty or poor teaching, she liked to read a great deal better than she liked to study. "Do you know any French at all?" continued her cousin. "No, not any.
"Now, Mr. Frank," said the, pedlar, "as you know the danger that's about you, I say that unless you get out o' the counthry at wanst, you'll only have a hand in your own death if anything happens. You're, goin' now, I suppose, to Mr. Purcel's; if you are if it wouldn't be troublesome jist say that the Cannie Soogah will call there in the coorse o' the mornin' for breakfast."
They must be sprinkled every morning; and if the earth is dry they must be thoroughly watered, and all the seed-pods and yellow leaves and dead flowers must be picked off. Do you feel as if you could do it?" "Oh, I should like to," said Cannie, brightening. "Very well. Georgie has plenty to attend to without them, I imagine. She will be glad to be helped.
Gertrude was no longer critical or scornful. She sat a little farther back than Candace, and from time to time glanced at her side-face with a sort of puzzled expression. Cannie, happening to turn, caught the look; it embarrassed her a little, and to hide the embarrassment she began to talk. "Did you know that Cousin Kate is going to let me live with you always?" she asked. "Yes; mamma told me."
"Don't you know Captain Midnight?" replied the other, somewhat evasively. "Why, of coorse I know the man by that name; but, at the same time, I know nothin' else about him." "Did you never hear?" asked his companion. "Why, to tell you the truth," said the other, "I heerd it said that he's the Cannie Soogah, or the Jolly Pedlar that goes about the country."
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