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Francie'll give you a kiss, twenty kisses, if you won't cry," said the pretty baby voice. "Your poor Edie's going away, and it will break her heart to leave you, my pet," said the girl through her tears, straining the child in a passionate embrace. Presently she grew calmer, and put the wondering little one down. "There, Francie, I've done crying now, and you needn't mind.
And after all," continued he, softening as he went on describing Edie's good gifts, "the dog has some good humour. He has borne his hard fate with unbroken spirits, and it's cruel to deny him the comfort of a laugh at his betters. The pleasure of having quizzed me, as you gay folk would call it, will be meat and drink to him for a day or two.
"His faith in the fellow is entirely restored," said Lovel, "by this deception, which he had arranged beforehand." "Ay, ay; trust him for that. He wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and then escape to his own country, the land-louper." But thanks to old Edie's efforts, Donsterswivel was checked in his scheme for the plunder of Sir Arthur Wardour. IV. The Secret is Disclosed
"Weel, sir, if ye will gae up wi' me, as the burial company has dispersed, we'se mak ye down a bed at the lodge, and we'se see if Edie's at the barn.
Edie's face burnt scarlet as she listened, but Ernest only answered more quietly he never allowed anything that Herbert said to disturb his equanimity 'We don't think alike upon this subject, you know, Herbert; and I'm afraid the disagreement is fundamental.
You'll open your eyes so wide that you'll never git 'em shut again, w'en you hears. No, I never did see such a lark! Edie's found! I've seen her! She ain't the Queen oh no; nor yet one o' the Queen's darters by no means; nor yet a duchess oh dear no, though she's like one. Who d'ye think she is? But you'll never guess."
In the evening, poor Edie came up to the house to see me, with an old negress called Sackey, who has been one of the chief nurses on the island for many years. I suppose she has made some application to Mr. Old Sackey fully confirmed Edie's account of the terrible hardships the women underwent in being thus driven to labour before they had recovered from child-bearing.
She smiled her downward, sagging smile, wrung from a virginity sadder than Grannie's grief. She spoke to Baby John. "You really are rather a nice boy," Auntie Louie said. But Edie, the youngest Auntie, was kneeling on the grass before him, bringing her face close to his. Baby John's new and flawless face was cruel to Auntie Edie's. So was his look of dignity and wisdom.
And after all," continued he, softening as he went on describing Edie's good gifts, "the dog has some good humour. He has borne his hard fate with unbroken spirits, and it's cruel to deny him the comfort of a laugh at his betters. The pleasure of having quizzed me, as you gay folk would call it, will be meat and drink to him for a day or two.
Yet he couldn't help observing, too, that his feeling towards her was more one of mere benevolence now, and less of tender regret, than it used to be even a few short months before, in the darkest days of Edie's troubles.
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