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"Disgusting stuff!" said Father, with some stronger words which I know my Aunt Kezia would not let me put down if she were looking. "Where did the fellow get hold of it? His father is a decent Tory enough. What is he at now? Listen, girls." Ambrose's tune had changed to, "King George he was born in the month of October, 'Tis a sin for a subject that month to be sober!"
I only know that the moaning wind outside chanted a triumphal march, and the dying embers on my hearthstone sprang up into a brilliant illumination, and I did not care a straw for all the battles that ever were fought, and envied neither Annas Keith nor anybody else. "Well, Hatty! I did not think you were going to be the old maid of the family!" said my Aunt Kezia.
However, we sat on and sewed away, till at last Amelia woke up and went up-stairs; Flora finished her petticoat, and my Aunt Kezia told her to go into the garden. Only we four sisters were left. Then my Aunt Kezia put down her flannel, wiped her spectacles, and looked round at us.
Nor, how at last, late in the afternoon, I found myself on the platform at Middlemoor Station. I was very tired, now that the first excitement had gone off. 'How glad I shall be to get to Windy Gap, I thought, 'and to be with Kezia. I opened my purse and looked at my money. There were three shillings and some coppers, not enough for a fly, which I knew cost five shillings.
But I knew Kezia's cakes were much better than any I could make, so I thanked her, but said no I would rather read or sew. I had my tea all alone in the dining-room. Kezia was always so respectful about that sort of thing. Though she had been a nurse when I was only a tiny baby, she never forgot, as some old servants do, to treat me quite like a young lady, now I was growing older.
"Ah, if that were all, Aunt!" said I. "But how can you leave it there? It seems to me not a matter for opinion, but a question of right. We have to take sides; and we may choose the wrong one." "I don't see that a woman need take any side unless she likes," quoth my Aunt Kezia. "I can bake as tasty a pie, and put on as neat a patch, whether I talk of Prince Charles or the Young Pretender.
"He just did, gin Mrs Kezia had nae had mair wit nor himsel'. She sent ye her loving recommend, young leddies, and ye was to be gude lassies, the pair o' ye, and no reckon ye kent better nor him that had the charge o' ye." "Sam, you put that in yourself," said Angus. "Atweel, Sir, Mrs Kezia said she hoped they'd be gude lassies, and discreet that's as true as my father's epitaph."
I do not know how four women are to travel without a gentleman, or even a serving-man: but I suppose we shall find out when the time comes. I said to my Aunt Kezia that perhaps Grandmamma would lend us Dobson. "Him!" cried she. "Dear heart, but I'd a vast deal liever be without him!
Then Colonel Keith and I carried in the basket, and Angus brought it out. Ephraim came to us after we left the prison, and brought me back here." "Ephraim Hebblethwaite helped you to do that?" I did not understand Hatty's tone. She was astonished, undoubtedly so, but she was something else too, and what that was I could not tell. My Aunt Kezia listened silently. "Why, Cary, you are a heroine!
Alexander Gaston married Olive Dunlap, a daughter of Joshua Dunlap, of Plainfield, Connecticut, who was born 1769, died in Killingly, September 7, 1814. He married for his second wife in Killingly, in April, 1816, Kezia Arnold, daughter of Aaron Arnold, born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, November, 1779, died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 30, 1856.
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