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Updated: May 14, 2025
Maids, Jasperson, must not be lightly put to confusion. They must be stalked, and when at bay wooed with tender words and languishing glances. Now listen to me. Next Sunday, when you call upon Miss Dutton, take the chair she offers, but as soon as a suitable opportunity presents itself, ask to see the album.
"But what will the neighbours say?" stammered Jasperson, sitting upright. At my brother's words his pendulous nether lip had stiffened, and now his pale blue eyes were quickening with hope and vitality.
As we walked back to the verandah, I told my brother that he had assumed a big responsibility; for I was convinced that Miss Dutton, albeit possessed of many admirable qualities, was not the woman to make little Jasperson either happy or comfortable. She, doubtless, being a wise bird, would greedily snap up this nice worm who had waxed fat in the richest soil.
"Birdie knows I don't drink," stammered our hired man, "but she thinks I'd ought to take the pledge as an example." "An example," echoed Ajax. "To whom? To us?" "She said an example, gen'lemen, jest an example." "But she meant us," said Ajax sternly. "Our names were mentioned. Don't you deny it, Jasperson." "They was," he admitted reluctantly.
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