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Andy ran across the room, but as he went out of the door he struck his toe against the sill, making a great clatter. Aunt Esmerelda awoke with a start. "Lan's sakes, wha's dat?" she exclaimed. "May I have some cookies, Aunt Esmerelda?" Hortense asked. Aunt Esmerelda's eyes were rolling. "I 'clare I seed somefin' goin' out dat a doh. Dis yere house 'll be de def of me. Cookies?
Compared with Esmerelda's, my gowns were getting shabby, and old-fashioned; and I concluded if I had means of my own, it was time to treat myself charitably as well as my poor acquaintances. The dinner bell rang at last, and I went down with some trepidation to meet my guardian.
"I knew it!" she exclaimed, full of excitement. "What did you know?" Andy asked. "It's the Grater! The one that hangs in Aunt Esmerelda's kitchen." "Let me see him!" cried Malay Kris. On the roof above their heads, light footsteps pattered rhythmically. "I do believe they're dancing!" Hortense said. They ran to the ladder and scrambled up. "Careful! We mustn't let them see us," Hortense warned.
Thomas, who was installed in Esmerelda's place at the back of my chair, was about as awkward in his new situation as I was; but at the close of our repast, Mr. Winthrop, with apparent sincerity, assured us he had not enjoyed a dinner so much since his boyhood a compliment that fully repaid me for my worry until I had thought it well over, and saw that it was capable of several meanings.
Blake's words had softened my heart; so I tried once more to chat pleasantly with my escort; but probably she had not got the same lesson as I, for she put on as many airs as before. When I met Mrs. Flaxman I inquired what Esmerelda's position was in the household. To my astonishment she said: "She is the chambermaid." "But is she a lady?"
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