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Updated: June 29, 2025
He tuk her home an' put her in a grand house in some town in Canada I don't well mind which but when he wasn't watchin' of her, the old ooman would squat down on the carpet in the drawin'-room, for, d'ye see, she hadn't bin used to chairs.
"Well, when the whole flock is gathered in the goose pastur, the drawin'-room, other little flocks come troopin' in, and stand, or walk, or down on chairs; and them that know each other talk, and them that don't twirl their thumbs over their fingers; and when they are tired of that, twirl their fingers over their thumbs.
De gentlemen is in de drawin'-room," Prilla answered, handing two visiting-cards to her young mistress. "'Donald Keith, U.S.A.," read Violet with a brightening countenance, as she glanced at the first. On the other was inscribed, "L. Raymond, U.S.N." Violet hastening to the drawing-room, met her cousin with outstretched hand and cordial greeting. "I am so glad you have come, Cousin Donald!
"Go on," says I. "Mind the lady." "I I'm no thief; really, gentlemen," says he. "You can see that, I trust." "Sure!" says I. "Just mistook the basement for the drawin'-room, didn't you? And you was about to leave cards on the fam'ly. What name did you say?" "I I'd rather not give my name," says he, hangin' his head.
'But isna yer mistress i' the drawin'-room? I dinna want to see her. 'Ow, weel, said the girl, who was almost fresh from the country, 'jist rin up the stair, an' chap at the door o' her room. With the simplicity of a child, for what a girl told him to do must be right, Robert sped up the stair, his heart going like a fire-engine.
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