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Updated: May 24, 2025
Is that almond paste ready, Keren Happuch? Then bring it quickly hither; and your manchet and sugar, Keziah, for the skins are ready to be stuffed."
"If an he be not," quoth her mother, who, though not half so big as her child, was in nowise less valiant "if an he be not," quoth she, "'tis time he were." "And for why?" saith Keren. "Thou knowest as well as I do, Happuch," saith my wife; whereat up started my crack-brain in a fine fury.
I can do naught with her now; she heeds not a word I say. Ofttimes she does not even know that I am speaking to her. She may go, and welcome! but I misdoubt me that Prudence will thank thee for the loan. Much good and much service she will get out of Keren Happuch!" Martin Holt looked thoughtfully at his sister. "That is partly why I am glad the child should go. I too have seen a change in her.
"Wife," saith I unto her later, hoping to draw her into converse concerning Keren, so that I might reason with her as to her treatment o' th' lass "wife," saith I, amiably, and, as I thought, in a manner most winsome, "wherefore didst thou speak to Keren as thou didst this morning?" "I spake to Happuch," saith my wife, "because I did choose so to do.
"Wife, wife," put in I, seeing that the girl was like to split with rage, "speak gentler to Keren." "To Happuch," saith she. "Speak gentler to the girl," saith I, hoping to compromise, as 'twere. "Happuch," saith my wife again.
He did not reply for a while, and then he said slowly: "Send the child to me, Susan; I will speak to her of this myself." "Ay, thou hadst best do so, for I might as well speak to the walls as to Keren Happuch," said Mistress Susan as she went on her way up the stairs, by no means pleased at the easy fashion in which her brother took this matter.
"Well, well," saith I, still hoping to split the difference, so that I would have neither my wife nor my daughter upon me, "if thou wouldst only speak gentler to Keren-Happuch, thou " "To Happuch," saith my wife a third time; whereat the lass did bounce out o' the house without more ado, and spent that night with a friend o' her own, by name one Mistress Meg Titmouse.
"So I have always thought," said Robina; "but you hardly make allowances for the old ladies who love to spell them out." "The Marquis of Rotherwood- a gold-topped dressing-case; Miss Keren Happuch Tripp- a pincushion," said Geraldine. "It is the idlest gossip, and should not be encouraged." "And," added Robina, "as we go out through the cloister there will happily be no rice.
Then saith my wife, after that his third visit was o'er, and speaking to Keren as she sat spinning i' th' door-way, "Happuch," saith she, "thou art serving thy cousin Ruth a very jade's trick." Then, hearing as how she did call her "Happuch," I did prick up my ears, as 'twere; for I knew there was anger brewing.
We did christen her Keren-Happuch; "for," quoth my wife, "when that we be pleased with her, we can call her Keren which is as sweet-sounding a name as a maid can have; and, on the other hand, when we be wroth with her, we can call her Happuch which sure would be a rough name even for thy trotting mare Bellibone." Ha! ha!
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