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Keep all the pink ones for the dining-room, and put the others wherever you like. Now, Mancy," she went on, "we'll discuss what to eat." "Yas'm, and I s'pose it'll be some ob dem highfalutin fandangoes ob yo's, what nobody can't eat." "You guessed right the very first time," said Patty, smiling back at the good-natured old cook, whose bark was so much worse than her bite.
From that city go men by the country a six journeys to another city that men clepe Chilenfo, of the which city the walls be twenty mile about. In that city be sixty bridges of stone, so fair that no man may see fairer. In that city was the first siege of the King of Mancy, for it is a fair and plenteous of all goods. After, pass men overthwart a great river that men clepe Dalay.
As M. Duchatel well says: "In reality, there is only one solitary MANCY. The faculty of seeing in TIME, like the faculty of seeing in SPACE, is ONE, whatever its outward form or the process employed."
Mancy, with her arms comfortably akimbo, stood before her young mistress ready to suggest, but tactfully chary of advice. They were not yet living in the new home, but all the furniture was in place, the furnace fire had been started, and the palms arranged in the little conservatory. So Patty spent most of her time there, and some of the Elliotts were usually there with her.
Only it does take quite a long time, and I shall have a lot to do Thursday morning. Perhaps I'd better leave it to you this time, Mancy. Can you make it?" "Laws, yes, honey; and yo'd better leave it to me. Yo'll have enough to do with yo' flowers and fixin's, and dressin' yourself up pretty. I'll 'tend to the food." "Well, all right, Mancy; I wish you would. And, now, just help me with this list.
"And can you sweep?" said Patty. "Can I sweep? Law, chile, co'se I kin sweep! What yo' s'pose I want to hire out for, ef I can't do all dem things? Oh, dey won't be no trouble about sweepin'!" "Well, where will the trouble be, Mancy?" said Patty. "Dey moughtn't be any trouble, miss," said the black woman earnestly; "but if dey is, it'll be 'count o' my bein' spoke cross to.
"Emancipation Proclamation Jackson," announced the owner of the name proudly. "That's a big name," said Patty; "I couldn't call you all that at once." "Co'se I shouldn't expect it. Mancy, mos' folks calls me, and dat's good enough for me; but I likes my name, my whole name, and it does look beautiful, wrote." "I should think it might," said Aunt Alice. "Can you cook, Mancy?"
Patty was up early, and when Ethelyn came downstairs, she found her cousin, with the aid of Mancy and Pansy, packing up what seemed to be luncheon enough for the whole party. "Doesn't anybody else take anything?" she inquired. "Oh, yes," said Patty, "they all do. I'm only taking cold chicken and stuffed eggs. You've no idea what an appetite sailing gives you."
Dinner'll come on after a while; it's mos' ready." Patty went back to the parlour, laughing. "If anybody can hurry up Mancy," she said, "they're welcome to try it. I didn't realise it was so late, and I'm awfully sorry; but I guess we'll have dinner pretty soon, now." "Don't be sorry we're going to have it soon," said Frank; "none of the rest of us are, I assure you."
"That's our cook," explained Patty. "It's a lovely name," observed Kenneth, "but just a bit lengthy for every-day use." "Oh, it's only for Sundays and holidays," said Patty; "other days we contract it to Mancy." Seated at table in a bright and beautiful restaurant, Patty and her new friend began to chatter like magpies while Mr. Fairfield ordered dinner.
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