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Gentlemen," he filled his glass again and held it high above his head, "I give you with all my heart Mr. Luigi Poggi, an honored and prosperous citizen of Flamsted my future son-in-law the prospective husband of my youngest daughter, Dulcibella Caukins." The company rose to a man, young Caukins assisting Quimber to his feet.
Caukins comprehended that the telling of the latest development was left to her.
Caukins' greeting a few minutes afterwards, "come in and rest yourself before supper. Luigi was here just now and I've sent Dulcie over with him to Aurora's to get the Colonel; I saw him go in there fifteen minutes ago, and he's no notion of time, not even meal-time, when he's talking business with her. I know it's business, because Mr. Emlie drove up with him; he's waiting for him to come out.
I heerd not long ago thet she was a-goin' on the stage when she'd worked out her freedom, and by A. J. she's got the voice for it! But I'd hate ter see her thar. She's made a lot er sunshine in this place, and I guess from all I hear there's them thet would stan' out purty stiff agin it; they say Luigi Poggi an' Romanzo Caukins purty near fit over her t' other night."
I forgot the peppermints, but " he slapped his trousers' pockets significantly. The twins shouted with delight and rushed away to impart the news to the boys. "I wish you would tell me the secret of your boys' conduct in church, Colonel Caukins; it's exemplary. I don't understand it, for boys will be boys," said the rector one Sunday several years before when all the boys were young.
Caukins with withering scorn; "you've eaten a good supper if you were 'scared' as you say. What scared you?" The twins looked down into their plates, the generally cleared-up appearance of which seemed fully to warrant their mother's sarcasm. "Luigi told us not to tell," said Dulcie in a low voice. "Luigi told you not to tell!" echoed their mother.
Colonel Caukins sprang to place a high three-legged stool for the little registree, and was about to lift her on, but the child, laughing aloud, managed to seat herself without his assistance, and forthwith gave her undivided attention to the entering of her name.
It's Doosie Caukins has begged the loan of the two little gells for the afternoon. The twins seem to me most like my own rale downright swate gells, an' it's hopin' I am they'll do well when it' comes to their marryin'." Aileen laughed merrily at the matrimonial persistence of her old chum's thoughts. "Oh, Maggie, you are an incorrigible matchmaker!"
But he was sure Aileen's anomalous place in the household at Champ-au-Haut neither servant nor child of the house, never adopted, but only maintained could have been no sinecure. Anyway, he knew she had kept the devotion of her two admirers, Romanzo Caukins and Octavius Buzzby.
"I heerd tell thet the little girl hed turned his head an' Tave couldn't git nothin' in the way of work out of him." "In that case I must look into the matter." The Colonel spoke with stern gravity. "Both Mrs. Caukins and I would deplore any undue influence that might be brought to bear upon any son of ours at so critical a period of his career." Mr.
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