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Updated: May 27, 2025
Dolf, yer welcome as hot-house peaches and these gemmen, may I 'quest an interdiction?"
Mellen's disappearance, there had been an anxious meeting in the neighborhood, at which Elder Spotts had held forth with peculiar eloquence, and Clorinda had been wonderfully loud in her responses, a state of things which filled Dolf with serious perplexity; in fact, it had been a very anxious meeting to him.
"If yer wants my 'pinion 'bout what's gwine on," said Clo, suddenly, as she rose to pile up the dishes she had been using preparatory to making poor Sally wash them in the kitchen; "it's jis' dis yer! Dis trouble's all missus!" "Missus!" repeated Vic. "Now what does yer mean?" cried Dolf. Clo nodded her head several times with gravity and precision.
My Riekje, what is the matter with you?" "Ah! Dolf," replied Riekje, "if it were to happen to-day! I have been in pain all the afternoon, and now I feel worse. My child! If I die, you will love it, Dolf, dear?" "Mother! Mother!" cried Dolf, "I am sick at heart." Then he hid his face in his big hands and began to sob, without knowing the reason.
Of course these females, like their betters, never quarreled openly about Dolf, but they found endless subjects of dispute to improve upon, and sometimes that adroit fellow got into serious difficulty with both by attempting to mediate between them.
"Sally, 'deed no!" cried Clo. "It's nuff fur her ter see such tings widout eatin' 'em a lazy, good-fur-notin' piece." "Den ter 'blige yer I'll dispose of it," said Dolf, and he did so in just three mouthfuls.
On occasions the sable rivals would hide their bitterness under smiles and good nature, and appear almost affectionate after the influence of a sudden truce; but Dolf learned to dread those seasons of deceitful calm, for they were the sure precursors of an unusually fierce tempest, which, blowing in opposite directions, it was impossible for him to escape.
Dolf took up the theme, and enlarged upon the virtues of resin, particularly that resin of his, which was the very best kind of resin for the purpose and had been specially commended by an old swaggie with one eye, who gave it to him for a four-bladed knife and a clay pipe.
"I don't mean ter be confusin', Miss Clorindy," said Dolf; "it's far from my wishes leastways wid you." There was a tender emphasis on the concluding pronoun which quite upset Clorinda. She allowed the carrots to fall back in the pan of water, and seated herself on a stool near by if anything serious was coming she would receive it with dignity befitting the occasion.
The next time you venture any remark on me you will leave my service." Clorinda sallied back as if she had been shot, and darted into her own dominions, less favorably disposed than ever towards the mistress for reproving her before Dolf. Mr. Mellen dismissed the man, walked into the veranda and confronted his wife. He was pale as death, in the moonlight.
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