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It had nothing unusual in it, with the exception of a raven, that was hopping about the floor, and which appeared to be on the most familiar terms with its mistress. Doortje, herself, was a woman of quite sixty, wrinkled, lean, and hag-like; and, I thought, some care had been taken, in her dress, to increase the effect of this, certainly her natural appearance.
I saw the eyes of Doortje fastened keenly on him, as he took his stand near the table, and the corners of her mouth curled in a significant smile. What that meant, exactly, I have never been able to ascertain. "I suppose, you wish to know something of the past, like all the rest of them," mumbled the woman, "so that you may have faith in what you hear about the future?"
If I would stand his friend he would go at once; but he confessed he did not like to trust himself all alone in the old woman's company. "I am, perhaps, the only man of my time of life, in Albany, who has not, sooner or later, consulted Mother Doortje;" he added! "I do not know how it is, but, somehow, I have never liked to tempt fortune by going to question her!
"Our supper, and an excellent one it is, is close at hand, as I have said. Nothing will be easier than to get it on our own table, in the next room, could we only manage to call old Doortje off duty, and detain her for five minutes at the area gate of her house. She knows every one of us, and would smell a rat in a minute, did we show ourselves; but Mr. Worden and Mr.
The fortune-teller told me that the queen of my heart was the queen of too many hearts; that the river had done me no harm; and that I must particularly beware of what she called Knights-Barrownights." I watched Anneke closely, as I repeated this warning of Mother Doortje; but could not read the expression of her sweet and thoughtful countenance.
She's a wonderful creature, Corny, as we must allow, and a prudent general would not fail to respect what she told him. It is a thousand pities that either the Commander-In-Chief, or the Adjutant-General, had not paid Doortje a visit before they left Albany. My Lord Howe's valuable life might then have been saved." "In what way. Guert?
We were admitted by a young woman, who gave us to understand that Mother Doortje had a couple of customers, already; but she invited us to sit down in an outer room, promising that our turn should be the next. We did so, accordingly, listening, through a door that was a little ajar, with no small degree of curiosity, to what was passing within.
I have always supposed that this interview with Mother Doortje had a lasting influence on the fortunes of poor Dirck; nor am I at all certain its effects did not long linger in the temperament of some others that might be named. As our turns had now come, we were summoned to the presence of this female soothsayer. It is unnecessary to describe the apartment in which we found Mother Doortje.
Mayor justice, the lost time had been so well improved by Doortje, that, on looking around the table, I thought the supper to which we were thus strangely invited, was, of the two, the best I had seen that evening.
Worden gave a loud hem placed his arms akimbo and seemed determined to brazen it out; though, I could easily perceive, that he felt excessively awkward. "How is it, with my cattle? and shall I send much mutton to market, this season?" "A wolf, in sheep's clothing!" muttered Doortje. "No no you like hot suppers, and ducks, and lectures to cooks more than gathering in the harvest of the Lord!"
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