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Jeffy and I suspect that the mischievous African designed the act overturned the coffee in handing it to my father, who is not endowed with the most equable temper ever consigned to mortals; but this morning he did not give Jeffy even a severe look, for his eyes were full of tender pity, such as I had never seen in them in all the past. "How is your patient?" I asked.
Why come in, honey!" and before the lawyer could answer further, he was literally dragged through the dingy door by the still vigorous old woman, and found himself inside her apartment, Master Jeffy and his pitcher being left neglected on the entry floor.
"What do you s'pose he wants with this thing'?" whispered Jeffy; and he pointed to the soft, fair masses of curling hair that rested against the pillow. Jeffy was a spoiled boy, "my doing," everybody said, and it may have been truly. He was Chloe's son, and had inherited her ways and affectionate heart, and for these I forgave him much.
I questioned Jeffy, as if I knew all the antecedents of the case perfectly. "Oh, he's jolly to-night. I think Master Percival might have let me stay to see the fun;" and Jeffy's eyes rolled to and fro in their orbits, as if anxious to strike against some wandering comet. "Is tea over?" I asked. "No, miss. Master said he'd wait for you.
I said, "Hush!" whereupon he lifted up the wig and deposited it upon the top of his tangled circlets of hair before I could stay him. I reached out my hand for it, not venturing on words, for fear of disturbing the patient; but Jeffy, with unpardonable wilfulness, danced out of my circuit, and at the same instant the sick man turned his head, and beheld Jeffy in the possession of his property.
He promised, upon condition of my forgiveness, forgiveness for having killed me, who never had been killed, who was surely alive. Jeffy had come in again, and had listened to the pleading. "Why don't you tell him yes, Miss Anna? He doesn't know a word he's sayin'. It'll keep him quiet like; he's like a baby," he whispered, with a covert pull at my dress by way of impressment.
No one of the children of the land was found of wisdom sufficient to read the hieroglyphs; therefore the sacred roll was divided among the souls in the nation: unto each was given one note from the divine whole. "Jeffy must have received a semi-breve as his portion," I thought, for he was rapt in ecstasy.
My casket of treasures I had committed to bands for keeping. Now I laid it down, and, folding up my protective robes, I had just gone to try my father's easy-chair, alone, when Jeffy's ebon head struck in again. "I didn't see ye afore, Miss Anna. I'so mighty glad you've come;" and Jeffy atoned for his former omission by his present joy. "How is he?"
I let him sing, knowing that it was in delirium; and for the moment my wonder ceased concerning Miss Axtell's love for Herbert. This while, Jeffy stood speechless, transfused into melody. Whence came this love of Africans for harmonious measure?
The merry Van Winkles, good fellows and good sports that they were, thrived with the game, and kept straight down the course of true love as well. "Jeffy," said Rip one evening after returning from a rather protracted call on Toots Barrows, "I have asked her to marry me." "So have I," said Jeff, who had returned with him from the Barrows home. "I wonder what the governor will say?"
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