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"Oh, yes, indeed," said Betty, smiling brightly at the old lady. "Well, dearie, have a good time while you can. Life is hard in a pioneer's cabin. You will not always have the Colonel to look after you. They tell me you have been to some grand school in Philadelphia. Learning is very well, but it will not help you in the cabin of one of these rough men."
'Hark, the mavis' evening sang Sounding Clouden's woods amang; Then a-faulding let us gang, My bonnie Dearie. 'Ca' the yowes to the knowes, Ca' them whare the heather grows, Ca' them whare the burnie rowes My bonnie Dearie. We'll gae down by Clouden side, Through the hazels spreading wide, O'er the waves, that sweetly glide To the moon sae clearly.
Presently, as he gave a long sigh and seemed to recover himself, she grew more coaxing and with grave kindness of manner added a final reason: "You see, dearie, you must try and understand how it is: I can't refuse it to my poor friends." The count consented to give way and only insisted that Georges should be dismissed once for all.
"Pass on, little girl," she said, opening the gate, and in a few minutes Dapple Gray was clattering over the bridge. And pretty soon he drew up before the Goody Sweet Tooth Shop. "I bring you good news from the little men of the glen," cried Mary Louise to the little old woman who just then looked out of the door. "What is the news, dearie?" she asked, shading her eyes with her withered hand.
Well, we'll see! Dolores is stealing your man, eh! Ten thousand fleas on the good-for-nothing, anyhow! Excuse me, the girls don't chase the men. It's the men that chase the girls. Listen to me, dearie. If you want that man of yours to mind his business, you just keep things going at home right and proper. Keep him busy! Keep him busy! Then he won't go browsing around where he don't belong.
Get out of here, you lump of stench." "Oh, swear that you won't tell him! Do swear, dearie. Long life to you. Health to every little bone of yours." "First you swear that you'll never do it again, you heap of dung." "Strike me blind and dumb and deaf if I ever do it again. There." "Your oaths are worth no more than the barking of a dog. Can't you be decent?
Miss Patty came down to the news stand and pretended to hunt for a magazine. I reached over and stroked her hand. "Don't take it too hard, dearie," I said. "He's put out to-night, and maybe he isn't well. Men are like babies. If their stomachs are all right and have plenty in them, they're pleasant enough. It's been my experience that your cranky man's a sick man."
And then it was the man's coolly smiling face, the paralyzing strangeness of his manner, more than his strength, that weakened Madeline until she sank trembling against the bench. "What do you mean?" she panted. "Dearie, ease up a little on the bridle," he replied, gaily. Madeline thought she must be dreaming. She could not think clearly. It had all been too swift, too terrible for her to grasp.
"They'd know something was up if I was to go around that way, and I'd be a bloody ghost as soon as they could ketch me alone," she said. "Well, good night or is it mornin'? And do take keer of yourself, dearie." And, so saying, Mother Borton muffled herself up till it was hard to tell whether she was man or woman, and trudged away.
"Anyway, she can't be left at the manse. Dear knows what those poor children might learn from her. I understand that she has been known to swear. But just think of her being there two whole weeks and Mr Meredith never waking up to it! What business has a man like that to have a family? Why, Anne dearie, he ought to be a monk." Two evenings later Miss Cornelia was back at Ingleside.
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