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He then retired in the blackest consternation, and his yellow granddaughter, the house-girl, brought in the wine-jelly. One thing is certain I must contrive some way to get Sam back and forth to me from The Briers in less time than it takes him to walk five miles.
His supper tray had not been removed. He lit a cigar and picked up a book it was Herbert Spencer, and he was soon interested. Ten minutes later an octoroon house-girl, with dark Creole eyes, and bright ribbons in her hair, came in to remove the supper dishes. She wore a bright-colored green gown, cut low.
Of course, she wasn't going to walk back with him! a pretty figure they'd cut strolling through the fields, like a house-girl and the milkman on a Sunday afternoon! She would simply say she was too tired to walk, and that would end the matter. So she said she thought the exercise would do them both good.
These little things really worried her; I could see they did. She never said any thing; but she would get up, take up the hat, brush the table with her handkerchief, and hang the hat in its right place, or send the house-girl with the broom after his disfiguring tracks. "Pardon me, my dear," he would say with imperturbable good-nature, "really, I am too forgetful.
Gabriella was glad of the chance to wait for the house-girl to come up and kindle her fire grateful for the luxury of lying in bed on Friday morning, instead of getting up to a farmer's early breakfast, when sometimes there were candles on the table to reveal the localities of the food! How she hated those candles, flaring in her eyes so early!
So the whole household, with the exception of her maid, a cook, house-girl, and under-butler, were to leave the city next day in order to get the country house ready at once. "I don't wonder she needs a little toning up," remarked our chief sympathetically. "She has gone through a nerve-trying ordeal, especially for a girl reared as she has been. Two or three months of quiet will do her good.
These, with Melia Mundy, the house-girl, whose parents lived on Brefar, made up Farmer Tregarthen's employ, and took their meals at table with the family. The school which Annet, Linnet, and Matthew Henry attended had been built by the Lord Proprietor on Inniscaw shore, to serve the three islands of Inniscaw, Brefar, and Saaron.
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