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"But, Corporal, how would it mend the matter to take the devil in-doors?" "Devil!" Don't call names. Did not I tell you, only one Jacobina does not hurt is her master? make you her master: now d'ye see?" "It is very hard," said Peter grumblingly, "that the only way I can defend myself from this villainous creature is to take her into my house." "Villainous! You ought to be proud of her affection.
The first speaker was Anne Jacobina Woodford, who had recently come with her mother, the widow of a brave naval officer, to live with her uncle, the Prebendary then in residence. The other was Lucy Archfield, daughter to a knight, whose home was a few miles from Portchester, Dr. Woodford's parish on the southern coast of Hampshire.
Privacy was a luxury not ordinarily coveted, and the arrangement did not surprise Anne, though she could have wished that on that summer day curtains and tapestry had been less fusty. Two young women were busy over a dress spread on one of the beds, and with French ease and grace the guide said, "Here is our new colleague, Miss Jacobina Woodford.
James's, where her son had been born, to take up her abode at Whitehall, that Lady Oglethorpe was considered to be disinfected from her children's whooping-cough, and could conduct Mistress Anne Jacobina Woodford to her new situation.
"It was priced three pence ha'penny," said Peter. "Augh baugh! you would not pay Joe Webster all he asks! What's the use of being a man of the world, unless one makes one's tradesmen bate a bit? Bargaining is not cheating, I hope?" "God forbid!" said Peter. "But as to the bit string, Jacobina took it solely for your sake. Ah, she did not think you were to turn against her!"
"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.
Hold jaw! tell you what, tell you what: am going away on Wednesday at day-break, and in my absence you shall " "What? my good Corporal." "Take charge of Jacobina!" "Take charge of the devil!" cried Peter. "Augh! baugh! what words are those? Listen to me." "I won't!" "You shall!" "I'll be d d if I do!" quoth Peter sturdily. It was the first time he had been known to swear since he was parish clerk.
It was a strange sermon according to present ideas, but not to those who had grown up to the semi-political preaching of the century then in its last decade; and it filled many eyes with tears, many hearts with a deeper spirit of that charity which hopeth all things. A month later Charles Archfield and Anne Jacobina Woodford were married at the little parish church of Fareham.
"But, Corporal, how would it mend the matter to take the devil in-doors?" "Devil! Don't call names. Did not I tell you, only one Jacobina does not hurt is her master? make you her master: now d'ye see?" "It is very hard," said Peter grumblingly, "that the only way I can defend myself from this villainous creature is to take her into my house." "Villainous! You ought to be proud of her affection.
Nay, he was not contented until Peter himself had patted her with a timorous hand, and had reluctantly submitted the said hand to the honour of being licked by the cat in return. Jacobina, who, to do her justice, was always meek enough in the presence, and at the will, of her master, was, fortunately this day, on her very best behaviour. "Them dumb animals be mighty grateful," quoth the Corporal.
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