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Here'd be the tooter and the young gen'lmen, and the governess and the young leddies, and then the servants they'd be al'ays the grandest folk of all and then the duik and the doochess Lord love 'ee, zur; the money did fly in them days!
The driver cracked his whip and the horses started. "Aweel," said the landlord to himself, as he watched the chaise winding its way up the mountain-pass. "Aweel, I waur e'en just confounded to see the dook here away without the doochess; and I just after reading in the Times how they were married o' the day before yesterday, and gane for their wedding trip to Paris!
So did the Cap'n, and the Doochess an' Lady Cleone they all 'elped 'em to do it, they did. An' now they're goin' into the country, to Deven'am, an' I'm a-goin' wiv 'em an' they're a-drivin' over to see you, sir, in 'is Ludship's noo phayton an' that's all no, it ain't though." "What more, Imp?"
Aweel, I suppose, it will be this witness business as hae broughten him back. But where's the young doochess? Ay, to be sure, he hae left her in her grand toon house in London. He wad na be bringing her here at siccan a painfu' time and occasion as the trial of her ain father's murtherer. Nae, indeed! that is nae likely," concluded honest Donald Duncan, as he returned into his house.
"Why, as they all come away from the church where they'd been a-doin' of it, sir I met the little, old Doochess in 'er coach, an' she see me, too. 'Why it's the little Giant! she sez. 'Best respex, mam, I sez, an' then I see as she'd got Lady Cleone wiv 'er a fine, 'igh-steppin', 'andsome young filly, I call 'er, an' no error. 'Where are you goin', Giant? sez the Doochess.
Then, with a flourish of his hat, Barnabas went on down the road, past the finger-post, with Milo of Crotona's small top-boots twinkling at his side. "Sir," said he suddenly, speaking in an awed tone, "is she a real Doochess the little old 'un?" "Yes," nodded Barnabas, "very real. Why, Imp?" "'Cos I called 'er a child, I did Lord!
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