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He must disguise himself, and find young Van Quintem, and follow him day and night, till he brings up at Miss Minford. That's the shortest road. When Miss Minford has been found, then we will consider what is to be done next." Mrs. Crull and Overtop at once approved of this plan, and no time was lost in putting it into execution.
Crull, when she first heard, from the lips of the blushing Pet, that Bog had proposed and been accepted, immediately outlined the plan of a wedding at her house, which should be something unprecedented in point of magnificence.
Crull to buy the best house in Twenty-third street, and take the second best pew in a fashionable church, thereby placing Mrs. Crull at once within the charmed circle of society. As for himself, Mr. Crull took very little interest in society, having observed that society had taken very little interest in him until that "lucky turn in terbacker." Mrs.
The plan took shape as she thought of it, and she had already settled upon the number of invitations, and the other principal arrangements, when old Van Quintem's wish was mentioned to her. The sacrifice was a great one; and Mrs. Crull would make it only on condition that she should superintend the preparations with the same freedom as at her own house.
Please come to the ferry house on the Greenpoint side, and wait there till I send for you. These notes he addressed to Mr. Van Quintem, sen., and Mrs. Crull, at their residences. The next step was to find a boy to deliver them. Bog did not have to wait long for that. Boys of the ragged and city-wise variety may be picked up at any corner of New York at any hour of the day or night.
Crull kept two servants, but she could never get over the impulse to answer the door, when she was near it. Overtop explained that they were desirous of seeing Miss Minford on important business. "The poor, dear child!" exclaimed Mrs. Crull, in a broken voice. "She is not here." "Not here!" cried Overtop. "Where is she, then?" "I don't know, sir; and that's what troubles me so." Here the good Mrs.
The young villain stood in a corner, gnawing his finger nails, and revolving schemes of vengeance. All waited for Miss Minford to become calm before any explanation was sought. Under the soothing caresses of Mrs. Crull, the young girl soon became comparatively tranquil.
Sparkling brown eyes, full lips rich in humor and pugnacity, 'lockës crull as they were layde in presse, the same look of 'wonderly' activity too, in spite of his short stature and dainty make, as Chaucer lends his Squire the type was so fresh ad pleasing that Robert was more and more held by it, especially when he discovered to his bewilderment that the supposed stripling must be from his talk a man quite as old as himself, an official besides, filling what was clearly some important place in the world.
Crull should see her in five minutes. That lady then assisted him into the carriage, and kissed him on the forehead in a motherly way, which would have astonished the sedate family coachman, if he had not been entirely used to Mrs. Crull's eccentricities. "My good boy," said old Van Quintem, in a trembling voice, "are you sure we are not too late quite sure?" "Sure!" said Bog.
Crull was always anxiously awaiting her. Mrs. Crull at first thought she was competent to learn her native tongue and French together, in a series of half-hour lessons; but she soon found out that the latter language had some eccentric peculiarities quite beyond her powers of articulation, and that the spelling of a word did not afford the slightest clue to the method of pronouncing it.
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