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Like enough, by a hundred years are over, they'll be looking at Roman sugar-sticks as the Scarlet Woman holds them out, and thinking that she is very fair and fine-spoken, and why shouldn't they have a few sweets? Well! it is well the government of the world isn't in old Kezia's hands, for if it were, some people would find themselves uncommonly uncomfortable before long."
Hatty tried to whisper once or twice to Fanny, making her blush and look uncomfortable; but Fanny did not speak, and I fancy Hatty got tired. Amelia went to sleep. At last, and all at once, Flora honest, straightforward Flora laid her work on her knee, and looked up at my Aunt Kezia's grim set face. "Aunt Kezia, will you tell me, is something the matter?"
"Don't, Kezia," said Maggie, angrily. "Go away!" "But I tell you you're to come down, Miss, this minute; your mother says so," said Kezia, going up to Maggie and taking her by the hand to raise her from the floor. "Get away, Kezia; I don't want any dinner," said Maggie, resisting Kezia's arm. "I sha'n't come." "Oh, well, I can't stay. I've got to wait at dinner," said Kezia, going out again.
My Uncle Drummond has not writ once, and she is very fearful lest some ill have befallen him. My Aunt Kezia's letter is long, and full of good counsel, which I am glad to have, for I do find the world a worse place than I thought it, and yet not in the way I expected. She warns me to have a care lest my tongue get me into trouble; and that is one of the dangers I find, and did not look for.
She at length came in. "I have given you an hour's grace," she exclaimed. "You will be fit for nothing to-morrow if you don't go up to bed." "She knows best," said Mr Fluke, looking at Owen, and taking the candle which Kezia handed to him; "every one obeys her in this house." After Mr Fluke had gone to his room, Owen gratified Kezia's curiosity by giving her an outline of his adventures.
"Why, where could I have put it?" said I. "I always keep it on that shelf." I was sorry to miss it, because it is my best scarf, and I thought I should want it in London, where I suppose everybody goes very fine. However, there was no more to be said on my side. I found there was on my Aunt Kezia's. "Here, hold your hand, child," saith she.
With her red cheeks and bright eyes she looked like a rooster. "What'll I be?" Lottie asked everybody, and she sat there smiling, waiting for them to decide for her. It had to be an easy one. "Be a donkey, Lottie." It was Kezia's suggestion. "Hee-haw! You can't forget that." "Hee-haw!" said Lottie solemnly. "When do I have to say it?" "I'll explain, I'll explain," said the bull.
And though the tears were running down poor Kezia's face when she bade us good-bye at the window of the railway carriage, I could not have cried if I had wished. We had a three miles' drive to the station.
My Aunt Kezia's brows were drawn together, and my Aunt Kezia's lips were thin; and I trembled. However, she took no note of us, but went on tearing up flannel, and making little piles of it upon the table end. Sophy, with heroic bravery, attacked the citadel at once. "Well, Aunt, this is pretty news!" "What is?" said my Aunt Kezia, standing up straight and stiff.
Tulliver paused a minute or two, and dived with both hands into his breeches pockets as if he hoped to find some suggestion there. Apparently he was not disappointed, for he presently said, "I know what I'll do: I'll talk it over wi' Riley; he's coming to-morrow, t' arbitrate about the dam." "Well, Mr. Tulliver, I've put the sheets out for the best bed, and Kezia's got 'em hanging at the fire.
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