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A yellow-faced old gentleman from India, is going to take unto himself a young wife this morning, and six carriages full of company are expected, and Mrs Miff has been informed that the yellow-faced old gentleman could pave the road to church with diamonds and hardly miss them.
There is nobody here but my little dog one that I have just bought, a rather shaggy terrier what do you think of him?" "Do 'e bite, sir?" inquired Mrs Miff, in some anxiety, as she passed round the table at a respectful distance from Dumps. "I think not. He seems an amiable creature," said I, patting his head. "Do you ever bite, Dumps?"
"Been fishing lately?" he asked easily, as though he had not left her that day in a miff. "No. Dorman is fickle, like all male creatures. Dick brought him two little brown puppies the other day, and now he can hardly be dragged from the woodshed to his meals. I believe he would eat and sleep with them if his auntie would allow him to."
About a year ago I invited two of them to dine with me; their answer was that they would if they could not do better. I suppose they did better, for I never saw them afterwards, and so had no opportunity of showing my miff if I had any." We have said that Benjamin was named for his uncle in England, and, possibly some of the other children were named for other relatives in the mother country.
She is hardly more curious in couples than in coffins. She is such a spare, straight, dry old lady such a pew of a woman that you should find as many individual sympathies in a chip. Mr Sownds, now, who is fleshy, and has scarlet in his coat, is of a different temperament. 'Altogether, Mrs Miff, says Mr Sownds with a relish, 'she is what you may call a rose-bud.
"Dear knows!" "You certainly must be mistaken. Mrs. Todd would not refuse to speak to one of her old friends in the street." "Humph! I don't know; she's rather queer, sometimes. She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance. But let her. I shall not distress myself about it; she isn't all the world." "Have you done any thing likely to offend her?" asked Mrs. Lyon.
She frequently complained of this behind her brother's back, and very sharply censured him for it, both to Thwackum and Square; nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff, as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
Feeling sure that the little dog, unaccustomed, perhaps, to be left alone in a strange place, was merely anxious to be free, I at once went to my room-door and opened it. Dumps bounced out, and danced joyfully round me. Mrs Miff fled in deadly silence to her own bedroom, where she locked and bolted herself in.
Later in the day another report: A letter left by Madeline had been found at home. She had taken offence at some sharp thing that sarcastic Mr. Withers, who always did hate her, had said; and had gone off in a miff, without even good-by or a carpet-bag, and taken the night train to New York, where she had an uncle on the mother's side. And a good riddance! Now Miss Addy and Mr.
'There ain't a many ladies come here, Mrs Miff says with a curtsey to look at Mrs Miff, at such a season, is to make her mortified bonnet go down with a dip writes their names like this good lady! Mr Sownds the Beadle thinks it is a truly spanking signature, and worthy of the writer this, however, between himself and conscience. Florence signs too, but unapplauded, for her hand shakes.
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