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We must not forget your kittens, Jacobina; you have four left they must be provided for. Why not a cat's children as well as a courtier's? I have got you a comfortable home, Jacobina take care of yourself, and don't fall in love with every Tomcat in the place. Be sober, and lead a single life till my return.
The cautious Peter every now and then checked her ardour, as she was about to quicken her step, and enliven the march by the gambols better adapted to serener times. "Soho, Jacobina, soho! gently, girl, gently; thou little knowest the dangers that may beset thee.
"I did not think you had so good a memory, Corporal," said Peter smiling; the cat was now curling itself up in his lap: "after all, Jacobina what a deuce of a name seems gentle enough." "Gentle as a lamb soft as butter kind as cream and such a mouser!" "But I don't think Dorothy " "I'll settle Dorothy." "Well, when will you look up?"
She decidedly thought that Mistress Anne Jacobina held her head too high for her position, and was, moreover, conceited of an unfortunate amount of good looks.
Your wife's well, I hope? and Jacobina is not that the cat's name? in high health and favour." "Hem, hem! why, to be sure, the cat's a good cat; but she steals Goody Truman's cream as she sets for butter reg'larly every night." "Oh! you must cure her of that," said Lester, smiling, "I hope that's the worst fault."
"Now there's Jacobina, 'cause she's a good cat, a faithful servant, the whole village is against her: such lies as they tell on her, such wappers, you'd think she was the devil in garnet! I grant, I grant," added the Corporal, in a tone of apologetic candour, "that she's wild, saucy, knows her friends from her foes, steals Goody Solomon's butter; but what then? Goody Solomon's d d b h!
Anne, or Jacobina, as she tried to be called, towered above her head, and had never lost that tincture of courtly grace that early breeding had given her, and though her skirt was of gray wool, and the upper gown of cherry tabinet, she wore both with an air that made them seem more choice and stylish than those of her companion, while the simple braids and curls of her brown hair set off an unusually handsome face, pale and clear in complexion, with regular features, fine arched eyebrows over clear brown eyes, a short chin, and a mouth of perfect outline, but capable of looking very resolute.
Luckily, however, one evening, the Corporal, who had been, to say truth, very regular in his attendance on his master; for, bating the selfishness, consequent, perhaps, on his knowledge of the world, Jacob Bunting was a good-natured man on the whole, and liked his master as well as he did any thing, always excepting Jacobina, and board-wages; one evening, we say, the Corporal coming into Walter's apartment, found him sitting up in his bed, with a very melancholy and dejected expression of countenance.
We must not forget your kittens, Jacobina; you have four left they must be provided for. Why not a cat's children as well as a courtier's? I have got you a comfortable home, Jacobina take care of yourself, and don't fall in love with every Tomcat in the place. Be sober, and lead a single life till my return.
"Only to ask arter Jacobina, poor thing; she might get herself into trouble if little Peter fell sick and neglected her like augh. And I hopes as how Peter airs the bit cottage now and then; but the Squire, God bless him, will see to that, and the tato garden, I'm sure." "You may rely on that, Bunting," said Walter sinking into a reverie, from which he was shortly roused by the Corporal.
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