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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Well-a-day," cried Dolly; "I would not be the mistress, to rise and go to her work afore the stroke of six, and she a fine lady born and bred, for all the hats and feathers, table heads, and carriage-seats in this here world. If I ever have a word to say to Luke Jobling, I know it will be with an eye to a good long lie in the morning when he has gone to his mowing or his reaping.
"No girl has ever went from this town as that Carroll girl will," he told his wife, who assisted him to clean the carriage cushions. "I s'pose the folks will dress a good deal," said she, brushing assiduously. "You bet," said her husband. "Well, they won't get no dirt on their fine duds off your carriage-seats," said she. She was large and perspiring, but full of the content of righteous zeal.
The peasants looked content and well-to-do, and were picturesquely clothed. We stopped an old man and bargained for the quaint, antique silver buttons on his coat, and paid him twice its weight in silver money for the big silver buckle at his belt. We were stopped at the frontier, and accommodatingly rose while the custom-officers politely looked under the carriage-seats.
'Beppo, look to yourself, she said, and ran to her retirement. 'I fancy that 's about all that you are fit for, Herr Johannes remarked, with his eyes on the impersonator of Beppo, who bore the scrutiny carelessly, and after seeing that Vittoria had left nothing on the carriage-seats, directed his steps to the kitchen, as became his functions.
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