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"I will go forth to seek her," cried Jacob, with unwonted animation. "It boots not for a man to be abroad after dark, but for a maid it is an ill tiding indeed. Which way went she? to the osier beds! Sure I must find her ere long. Were it not well for me to go, good Kezzie?" "I would that some would go, but I trow thou hadst better not adventure thyself alone.
I marvel thou dost not treat him better, Cherry." "I like Jacob; he is very good. We are great friends," answered Cherry hastily, "but " There she broke off and busied herself over her trunk, saying as she leaned so far into it that her face could not be seen, "Kezzie, if Cuthbert should come back, thou wilt tell him where I have gone.
He had better try for Kezzie, who would jump down his throat as soon as look at him. She fair rails on me for not treating him well. Let her take him herself, the loutish loon!" And tossing her head so that her coverchief required readjusting, Cherry slipped down the narrow wooden staircase into the rooms that lay below.
"He reminded me that many another girl was a wedded wife and mother at my age; and then I turned and said that since Jemima and Kezzie were yet unwed ay, and Rachel too, for all her rosy cheeks and her dowry it was hard that I should have to be the one to be turned first out of the nest.
I might, almost as well yield her at once, and take good Kezzie instead. Kezzie would make a better housewife my mother has told me so a hundred times; and I am fond of her, and methinks she " But there Jacob stopped short, blushing even in the darkness at the thought of what he had nearly said.
"She went out a while back to cut them. She loveth not dry disputings and learned talk. Belike she will linger below till nigh on the supper hour an Aunt Susan call her not." "I love not such disputings neither," said Jacob, with unwonted energy. "Good Kezzie, let us twain slip below to help Cherry over her task."
Father is a good man, and full of courage; but I grow full weary of these never-ending talks. Kezzie, thinkest thou that he will be put in prison for keeping from church with his whole house? Some men have been sent to prison for less." "I know not how that may be," answered Keziah, gravely.
I know he muttered something about its being a sore pity it was not Jemima or Kezzie that had been chosen.
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