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"Yes," cried the girl, and then roguishly added, "Why, dadda, I'd as soon, yes, sooner, marry old Belza, who at least is a prince in his own country, than see a Byllynge marry a bond-servant." For some weeks following the pledge of Janice, the life at Greenwood became as healthily monotonous as of yore. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Tibbie, mommy enjoyed it nearly as much as I, though the farce at the end vastly shocked her and, indeed, Tibbie, 't was most indelicate, and made me blush a scarlet, and all the more that Sir William whispered that he enjoyed the broad parts through my cheeks and she says if dadda insists, we'll go again, though not to stay to the farce.
"What have you done, then?" he demanded almost fiercely. "I I oh! I don't know," she gasped. "Then, as you have pity in you, grant my prayer?" For a moment Janice, with down-bent head, was silent. Then she raised her eyes to Jack's and said, "I will marry you, Colonel Brereton, if dadda will let me."
"Oh, dadda, nothing could be worse than that," cried Janice, her arms about his neck. "Have your way, then," finally acceded their lord and master. This settled, they set about such preparations as were possible. From Mr. Drinker a loan of five thousand dollars equal to a hundred pounds, gold was secured, and a bargain struck with a farmer to bring from Greenwood such supplies of clothes as Mrs.
I said, "How would you like your soldiers to come alive, Gip, and march about by themselves?" "Mine do," said Gip. "I just have to say a word I know before I open the lid." "Then they march about alone?" "Oh, QUITE, dadda. I shouldn't like them if they didn't do that."
"Last week dadda thought he saw a face one evening at the parlour window, and two nights ago I looked up suddenly and saw Well, mommy said 't was only vapours, but I know I saw something." The servant turned his face away from Janice, and coughed. Then he replied, "Perhaps 't was some one watching you. Didst make no attempt to find him?"
"And there, dadda, is the Vanishing Halfpenny only they've put it this way up so's we can't see how it's done." Gip, dear boy, inherits his mother's breeding, and he did not propose to enter the shop or worry in any way; only, you know, quite unconsciously, he lugged my finger doorward, and he made his interest clear. "That," he said, and pointed to the Magic Bottle. "If you had that?"
But, wilt believe it, Tibbie, instead of skirts, 't was loose trousers, gathered at the ankle, we wore, and a fine to-do mommy made at first over the idea, till dadda said I might do as the other girls did; though indeed, Tibbie, 't is to be confessed I felt monstrous strange, and scarce enjoyed a dance through thought of them. And here let me relate that this was the ostensible reason for Mr.
They descended in single file, unequally, like the theatre; two boys, then a little girl, the father, another girl, then the mother. Last of all trotted the dog, warily, suspicious of the descent. The boys emerged into the bay with a shout; the dog rushed, barking, after them. The little one waited for her father, calling shrilly: 'Tiss can't fall now, can she, dadda? Shall I put her down?
"Egad, general, we were right between the shooting at one minute, and heard the bullets shrieking all about us." "But so was his Excellency, dadda," protested Janice. "Oh, General Washington," she added, "when you rode up so close to the British, and I saw them level their guns, I was like to have fell off my horse with fear for you."
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