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By his side the redoubted Jacobina, who had transferred to her new master, the attachment she had originally possessed for the Corporal, trotted peeringly along, her tail perpendicularly cocked, and her ears moving to and fro, with a most incomparable air of vigilant sagacity.
Long ago Anne Jacobina had learnt to reckon Master Charles's pledges of affection among the sports and follies of childhood, and the strange sense of disappointment and shame with which she recollected them had perhaps added to her natural reserve, and made her feel it due to maidenly dignity to listen with zest to the account of the bride, who was to be brought to supper at Doctor Woodford's that eve.
"Come and take a dish of tay with you in half an hour; you want a new tay-chest; something new and genteel." "I think we do," said Peter, rising and gently depositing the cat on the ground. "Aha! we'll see to it! we'll see! Good b'ye for the present in half an hour be with you!" The Corporal left alone with Jacobina, eyed her intently, and burst into the following pathetic address.
"Silence order discipline," said Peter gruffly. "March!" But instead of marching across the hall, the recruits huddled up one after the other, like a flock of geese, whom Jacobina might be supposed to have set in motion, and each scraping to the ladies, as they shuffled, sneaked, bundled, and bustled out at the door.
Goody Solomon sold beer in opposition to you, set up a public; you do not like Goody Solomons, Peter Dealtry?" "If that were all Jacobina had done!" said the landlord, grinning. "All! what else did she do? Why she eat up John Tomkins's canary-bird; and did not John Tomkins, saucy rascal, say you could not sing better nor a raven?"
"I have practised my present attitude all the day, Miss," said Peter, proudly, "and I believe I may now say as Mr. Sternhold says or sings, in the twenty-sixth Psalm, verse twelfth. 'My foot is stayed for all assays, It standeth well and right, Wherefore to God will I give praise In all the people's sight! Jacobina, behave yourself, child.
"You could not find a more effectual method of putting them to flight, Peter," said Madeline smiling; "but go and talk to my uncle. I know we have a whole magazine of blunderbusses and guns at home: they may be useful now. But you are well provided in case of attack. Have you not the Corporal's famous cat Jacobina, surely a match for fifty robbers?"
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.
So saying, the Corporal, got up, walked into his house, and presently came back with a little net in his hand. "There, Peter, net for you, to hold lemons. Thank Jacobina for that; she got the string. So, for your sake, Peter, she got into this here scrape augh." "Ah!" quoth Peter laughing, "poor Puss! poor Pussy! poor little Pussy!"
But howsomever, I do my best to supply his place Jacobina, child, be still: I can't say as I knows the musket-sarvice, your honour; but I fancy's as how, like Joe Roarjug, the Methodist, we can do it extemporaneous-like at a pinch." "A bold heart, Peter, is the best preparation," said the squire.
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