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Updated: June 16, 2025
If you don't believe me, as I know you don't, here's Miggs, who is only too often a witness of it ask her. 'Oh! she were very bad the other night, sir, indeed she were, said Miggs. 'If you hadn't the sweetness of an angel in you, mim, I don't think you could abear it, I raly don't. 'Miggs, said Mrs Varden, 'you're profane.
"Ay," cried the host, "and all for nothing, no, not even a tax; who else in this kingdom can say that? Come, Mim, push round the ale."
I see misery as near beyond two thousand crowns a year as if it stood close by me; for besides that it is in the power of chance to make a hundred breaches to poverty through the greatest strength of our riches there being very often no mean betwixt the highest and the lowest fortune: "Fortuna vitrea est: turn, quum splendet, frangitur," Ex Mim.
'Hoots, lass! wenches are brought up sa mim, now-a-days; i' my time they'd ha' thought na' such great harm of a kiss. 'Good-night, Philip, said Bell Robson, thinking the conversation unseemly.
'Oh, mim, said Miggs, 'don't relude to that. I had no intentions, mim, that nobody should know. Such sacrifices as I can make, are quite a widder's mite. It's all I have, cried Miggs with a great burst of tears for with her they never came on by degrees 'but it's made up to me in other ways; it's well made up. This was quite true, though not perhaps in the sense that Miggs intended.
Here they are! cried Miggs, clapping her hands, and issuing forth to help her mistress to alight. 'Bring a chair, Simmun. Now, an't you the better for it, mim? Don't you feel more yourself than you would have done if you'd have stopped at home? Oh, gracious! how cold you are! Goodness me, sir, she's a perfect heap of ice. 'I can't help it, my good girl.
'If I am ever, said Mrs V. not scolding, but in a sort of monotonous remonstrance 'in spirits, if I am ever cheerful, if I am ever more than usually disposed to be talkative and comfortable, this is the way I am treated. 'Such spirits as you was in too, mim, but half an hour ago! cried Miggs. 'I never see such company!
Depositing on his majesty's floor the appurtenances of the regal supper-table, Mim made his respectful adieus and disappeared; meanwhile the queen scattered some fresh straw over a mattress in the narrow chamber, and, laying over all a sheet of singularly snowy hue, made her guest some apology for the badness of his lodging; this King Cole interrupted by a most elaborately noisy yawn and a declaration of extreme sleepiness.
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