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There was a woollen-factory in the village, perhaps half a mile away, and they were off generally long before the children were up; and Maddie and Lolly usually ate such pickings as they left upon the table, and spent their days as they pleased, with little thought or care from their parents. Lolly could not wait to get her breakfast.
He'd a decent, industrious little wife, about forty times too good for him, and the girls, Bella and Maddie, worked well, or else he'd have been walking about the country with a swag on his back. They kept him and the house too, like many another man, and he took all the credit of it, and ordered them about as if he'd been the best and straightest man in the land.
He looked rather down on his luck, so I gave him a job to mend up the barn. He's a handy fellow. I wonder he doesn't save more money. He's a careful chap, too. 'Careful, says Maddie. 'How do ye make that out? 'Why, says Jonathan, 'I'm dashed if he ain't got the same suit of clothes on he had when he was here three years ago. The old man didn't tumble, but both the girls burst out laughing.
Maddie sat down upon a large stone that Alice called her throne, and looked eagerly up at her companion for more; for Alice's words seemed to her like some beautiful story out of a book. "Did you ever go into any great house, Maddie?" asked Alice. "No, never," said Maddie. "I passed by Mrs. Cowper's one day, and looked in at the open door when somebody was coming out, but I couldn't see much."
By and by up comes old Jonathan, driving a respectable-looking carriage, with his wife and Bella and Maddie all in white silk and satin, and looking splendid. Out he gets, and takes Bella to walk up the middle of the church. When he went in with Bella, Maddie had one look in, and it seemed so crammed full of people that she looked frightened and drew back. Just then up comes the Mr.
But the bright happy face of Alice came before her to help her, and she was out of bed in a minute. "Maddie, Maddie!" said she, leaning over her sister and giving her the least bit of a shake in order to arouse her; "come, get up. The sun is shining on the wall, and it is a beautiful day. I want you to go with me for Alice." "Get away!" returned Maddie in a huff. "I haven't slept half enough!"
And when Alice told her that it was herself, she laughed with delight, and said "she would come every day to dress herself by Alice's mirror if she could look so nice." And then Alice and Maddie and Lolly went to the bower for the story. Alice sat down on the grassy bank, and Lolly laid her head upon her friend's lap, while Maddie crowded close to her to listen.
The old man laughed all over his face when he saw us, and the girls couldn't do enough for us when they heard we'd had scarce a morsel to eat or drink that day. 'Why, you're looking first-rate, Captain! says Bella. 'Dick, I hardly knowed ye the mountain air seems to agree with you. Maddie and I thought you was never going to look in no more. Thought you'd clean forgot us didn't we, Mad?
"May I see the message your mother sent?" came quickly from Waldstricker. Frederick started. Evidently his brother-in-law didn't believe his story. "If Miss Skinner'll give it to you, you can!" said he. "... I say, Eb, let Madelene and me get out of this the best way we can, won't you? Tell Maddie to behave herself and leave the Skinner girl's name out of her rages at me.... That's all I ask."
"Maddie and I mustn't forget these things," said she to herself; "but must try to get ready for our better home." So much was Lolly thinking of the things she had heard in the story, that she might have sat there in the dew all night, but that her mother called her to eat her supper and go to bed.
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