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First they abused the impudent young pusson they had left behind, and nearly annihilated Dolf when he attempted a word in the young woman's favor. "I 'clar," cried Clo at last; "Mr. Dolf, yer go 'long as crooked as a rail fence; what am de matter, are yer jest done gone and no 'count nigger any how?" Dolf only gave a racy chuckle. "I guess goin' into the wash-room turned his head," said Vic.
"I've said sometimes," continued Dolf, "dat if de day shud eber come when dat parathon ob her sex made up her mind ter gib her loved hand to some true bussom, she'd probably whisper musical in his ear de secret she has kept from all de wuld." Clo was divided between the tenderness awakened by these words and the vigilance with which she always guarded the outposts leading to her cherished secret.
"'Twarn't no use to say nothin', she flew off into one o' her tantrums, and scolded me like all possessed. I don't like her, anyhow, and dat's all 'bout it!" "But is dat all?" questioned Dolf, in a disappointed tone. "No, it ain't all; jis' wait and don't go off de handle afore you knows which end you've got hold on." "But de tree, Clorindy," said Dolf; "tell me 'bout de tree."
"It 'pends on yer, Miss Clorindy, yer know; de 'couragement yer've ben a givin' him is 'nuff to drive yer admirers out o' der senses." "Oh, dear me, I neber heerd sich audacious nonsense!" said Clo. "It's true," answered Dolf, "an' yer knows it. But ye're received in dat man, Miss Clorindy, yer is! He's got both eyes fixed on de glitterin' dross.
He performed his part in the most grandiloquent style, dropping on one knee as he had seen lovers do from the upper loft of the Bowery Theatre, and holding her hands fast, one of which grasped a knife and the other an onion. Before they were disturbed matters were completely settled, though Dolf pleaded for the engagement being kept secret a little while.
"Can't yer say what he's gwine to do, widout any of dem dern outlandish Spanish 'spressions." "'Twarn't Spanish, lubly one," said 'Dolf, greatly delighted at the effect his grandiloquent language had produced. "Sometimes I do 'dulge in far away tongues jist from habit; its' trabeling so much, you know." "Don't know nothin' about it, and don't want to," interrupted Clorinda.
That was a point beyond Clo, she could not lose her money even to Dolf, and vowed from that time out she would only play for pins. "Gamblin's wicked," she said, virtuously. So they played for pins, and Dolf allowed her to be the gainer. When she lost, Clo gave crooked ones in payment, and thus her high spirits were preserved untarnished. At last Othello arrived and made the circle complete.
"Come, Dolf, be brave," said Tobias, tapping him on the shoulder. "We have all gone through this!" "Riekje, Riekje, my heart!" said Nelle in tears, "no greater happiness could come to us on Saint Nicholas day. Poor folk rejoice more over a child that is born to them, than over all the treasures in the world, but the child whom God sends on Easter Day or St. Nicholas day is above all welcome."
I must have nearly broke your heart, I know." "No, Dolf, no. It was me! Me!" cried Mrs. Tetterby. "My little woman," said her husband, "don't. You make me reproach myself dreadful, when you show such a noble spirit. Sophia, my dear, you don't know what I thought. I showed it bad enough, no doubt; but what I thought, my little woman! "Oh, dear Dolf, don't! Don't!" cried his wife.
"It's her a screaming." "What, Elsie, my Elsie?" "Yes, sah; dat am her." "Dolf, I say," cried Tom, in breathless anxiety, thrusting a ten dollar gold piece into the negro's hand; "Dolf, would it be very much amiss, you know, if I was to take off my boots and just steal up?"
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