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"You should say, 'Yes, I think so, too." "I think so, too," murmured Phronsie, viewing her cup of milk gravely. "An' you must say, 'I think, Dukess, you have the most splendid milk." "It isn't milk," said Phronsie gravely, and she turned serious eyes on the lady of quality opposite.
"I'd rather have some milk," said Phronsie faintly, "if you please." "Oh, 'tain't no trouble," said the Dukess airily, quirking out her little finger with grace; and poising the tin coffeepot with an elegant air, she inverted it over a cracked cup, which, when generously full of water, she passed to her guest. "Help yourself to th' cakes.
"Oh, yes, it is," said the Dukess, "an' you orter go on an' say, 'An' all them perfectly beyewtiful flowers, I never see any so fine!" pointing to the empty spools in between the eatables. "But they aren't flowers," said Phronsie. This occasioned so much discussion that there was no lack of conversation, and was the reason that steps over the stairway were not heard.
The KING, CARLOS, the DUKESS ALVA, FERIA, and MEDINA SIDONIA, PRINCE OF PARMA, COUNT LERMA, DOMINGO, and numerous GRANDEES. Thy prayer hath met a gracious hearing, prince, And here I come, with all the noble peers Of this my court, to bring thee liberty. His eyes are fixed now on the KING, now on the corpse; he gives no answer. Receive thy sword again. We've been too rash!
No, I'll be a Dukess the Dukess of Marlbrer I've seen her in the paper. Oh, you've got to have the best chair," and she dragged up the sole article of furniture of that name, minus its back, away from the door; then helping Phronsie up from the floor, she wiped off the tears on her pinafore, no longer white, and soon had her installed on it. "Now you're comp'ny."
The Dukess twitched off the nightcap, and sprang up, upsetting the tin coffeepot, which rolled away by itself, and put herself over by Phronsie, covering her from view. In passing, she had grasped the doll off from the barrel and hidden her in the folds of her tattered gown with a quick, sharp thrust. "'Tain't nothin' 'f I do have some fun once in a while, Gran," she grumbled.
Phronsie put forth a trembling hand, as it seemed to be expected of her, and took the cup of water, spilling about half of it, which ran off the table-edge and down her little brown gown, the Dukess greeting this mishap with a shout of laughter, checking it suddenly with a start and a dismayed glance in the direction of the broken window. "It's time fer you to talk some," she said.
Thereupon she ran and fetched the doll from the bed, and put her on a small, old barrel, from which the articles were dumped out, and, with a box for her back, Clorinda was soon in great state on one side of the feast. The Dukess then slipped into her own seat, an inverted tub, somewhat low, to be sure, but still allowing the view of the festive cup to be seen. "She's my child, now.
Will you have choc'late? you must, Lady what's your name, anyway?" she demanded abruptly, bringing her black eyes to bear on Phronsie. Phronsie could hardly stammer it out for the tears she was choking back. "Oh, my eye, what a name!" laughed the Dukess, in derision. "Well, you can be Lady Funsie Fornsie whatever you call it. Now, will you have some choc'late? 'Taint perlite not to answer."
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