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"He's down there," said Jemima, as soon as her young mistress had joined her, "and wants to see you most partic'lar." "Which of 'em?" asked Amelia, in a whisper. "Why, Mr Heames, to be sure. Don't you go and have anythink to say to the other one, Miss Mealyer, pray don't; he ain't no good; he ain't indeed."
She had just seated herself between Mrs Lupex and Miss Spruce, ready to do battle with the former because she would stay, and with the latter because she would go, when she was called out by the servant girl. "Miss Mealyer, Miss Mealyer, sh-sh-sh!" And Amelia, looking round, saw a large red hand beckoning to her.
Miss Mealyer's here," said the girl, speaking in a cruelly loud voice. "She was in the dining-room just now, putting out the table. Miss Mealyer!" And the girl, as she called out the name, opened the dining-room door. Johnny Eames felt that his knees were too weak to support him. But Miss Mealyer was not in the dining-room.
She almost resolved not to see Eames on the present occasion, thinking that he might be made the more desperate by such refusal, and remembering also that Cradell was in the house and would know of it. "He's there a-waiting, Miss Mealyer. Why don't yer come down?" and Jemima plucked her young mistress by the arm. "I am coming," said Amelia. And with dignified steps she descended to the interview.
I am in the back parlour." When he had read these words, he paused in the passage, with his hat on. Jemima, who could not understand why any young man should hesitate as to seeing his lady-love in the back parlour alone, whispered to him again, in her audible way, "Miss Mealyer is there, sir; and all the rest on 'em's upstairs!"
Jemima, as he went out into the passage, was there with a three-cornered note in her hand. "From Miss Mealyer," she said. "Miss Mealyer is in the back parlour all by herself." Poor Johnny took the note, and read it by the lamp over the front door. "Are you not going to speak to me on the day of your return? It cannot be that you will leave the house without seeing me for a moment.
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