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"Afore ever dat ring was lost I seed a man in de house in de dead ob de night a man and a woman!" "Good gracious!" cried Dolf. "I'd had de toothache, and ben down to de kitchen fire a smokin' pennyryal, and awful sick it made me. I was gwine up de back stairs, when I heard steps in de hall. I looked in and I seed a man and woman plain. I had de candle in my hand.
Dolf smiled at the success of his falsehood, and made ready to clench the nail after driving it in. "Dat's what he tinks anyhow. Why, Miss Clorindy, he was a tryin' ter find out jist how much yer was wuth." "'Taint nobody's business but my own," cried Clo, angrily, "folks needn't be a pumpin' me; 'taint no use."
Miss Dinah had come up from the village, and her ebony suitor was expected. With that and their delight at Miss Elsie's improvement, the whole staff was in excellent spirits. "It's one ob dem 'casions," said Dolf, "when we ort ter do somethin' a little out ob de common run what do yer say, Miss Clorindy?"
Here Dolf sighed dolefully. He certainly was in earnest this time Clo felt assured of that. She forgot the half-washed vegetables, the unseasoned soup, and tried to pose herself with becoming dignity. "I don't see why," she said, in sweet confusion. "But any how yer didn't prove nothin' 'bout my bein' coquettious." "Dar it is!" cried Dolf. "It all goes togeder."
"I wrings de necks ob de chickens and skin de eels alive, 'cause it's a cook's lookout, but I hasn't got a speck ob cruelty in me." Dolf shook his head, then dropped it on one side with an air which he had found very effective in former flirtations. "In course yer'll deny it it's de way ob de sect, but de fact is dar."
"De'pistles is safe in de honorable hands for which dey was originally intended." "I'm glad they went off at the right moment," said Elsie, laughing. Dolf rather missed her play upon his mispronunciation of the word, but he gave another magnificent flourish. "Jes so, Miss Elsie; you've 'spressed it beautiful." "How do you do, Dolf?" asked Mrs.
He made her a bow which flattered the sable spinster into a broad smile, and almost made her drop the dish-pan, in the flutter of her delight. "Dolf, Dolf, am dat you?" she exclaimed, growing a shade darker.
"Oh, Dolf!" she cried. "I am so happy that you thought so; I am so grateful that you thought so! For I thought that you were common- looking, Dolf; and so you are, my dear, and may you be the commonest of all sights in my eyes, till you close them with your own good hands.
He was alone at last, and that was well; he was literally incapable of enduring any farther self-restraint. He rang the bell and gave strict orders to Dolf: "Let no one else in to-day; I have letters to write; I will not see another human being." Dolf bowed himself out, and took his way to the lower regions, to communicate to Clo and Victoria the commands his master had given.
There comes Dolf over the planks, bringing us flour, eggs, and cream; you will have something to say about my pancakes, Riekje." She opened the door, for a heavy step could be heard on the bridge of the boat. As a broad-shouldered man, with a frank, smiling face, stepped into the cheerful light of the room, his head almost touched the ceiling. "There you are, mother!" he cried.
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