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"Yes, mim," answered the girl, glancing into my face with a knowing leer, that produced an instant sense of humiliation; and away she went to do my bidding. I did not glance towards Agnes, as I returned to my seat and took up my work. I had not the courage to do this. That I had lowered myself in her estimation, I felt certain.
Some of the rougher of the women despised the sweet outlandish speech she had brought with her from her native England, and accused her of mim mou'dness, or an affected modesty in the use of words; but not the less was she in their eyes a great lady, whence indeed came the special pleasure in finding flaws in her for to them she was the representative of the noble family on whose skirts they and their ancestors had been settled for ages, the last marquis not having visited the place for many years, and the present having but lately succeeded.
She would have to go, go, go in a sort of disgrace. The girls were talking all round her, excitedly. She despised them for showing that they were disturbed by Fraulein's despotic nonsense. As they reached the basement she remembered the letter crushed in her hand and sat down on the last step to glance through it. "Dearest Mim. I have a wonderful piece of news for you. I wonder what you will say?
With that she dropped a curtsey, and keeping her head erect, her ear towards Mrs Varden, and her eye on the rest of the company, as she alluded to them in her remarks, proceeded: 'I'm quite delighted, I'm sure, to find sich independency, feeling sorry though, at the same time, mim, that you should have been forced into submissions when you couldn't help yourself he he he!
I have made arrangements for you in an altered state of society, and mean to provide for you comfortably in life there! Will that satisfy you? 'Oh Simmun! cried Miss Miggs. 'Oh my blessed Simmun! Oh mim! what are my feelings at this conflicting moment!
There's gran' bits here an' there, nae doobt, but it 's ower mim mou'ed for me." "What do you mean by that?" "It's ower saft an' sliddery like i' yer mou', my leddy." "What sort do you like then?" "I like Milton weel. Ye get a fine mou'fu' o' him. I like the verse 'at ye maun open yer mou' weel to lat gang. Syne it's worth yer while, whether ye unnerstan' 't or no."
But ye hae naething to fear; I will be as mim in the castle as ye wad be if gieing Florence yer hand in the kirk." The day on which the people were again to carry provisions to the garrison in Fast Castle arrived; and to the surprize of every one, Madge, with a laden basket on each arm, mingled amongst them. Many marvelled, and the more mercenary said "Ay, ay!
Uttering this notable extract from the thrice-honoured Sir Henry Wotton, King Cole turned abruptly from the common, entered the wood which skirted it, and, only attended by his guest and his minister Mim, came suddenly, by an unexpected and picturesque opening in the trees, upon one of those itinerant vehicles termed caravans, he ascended the few steps which led to the entrance, opened the door, and was instantly in the arms of a pretty and young woman.
'Oh, mim, said Miggs, returning with the candle. 'Oh gracious me, mim, there's a gentleman! Was there ever such an angel to talk as he is and such a sweet-looking man! So upright and noble, that he seems to despise the very ground he walks on; and yet so mild and condescending, that he seems to say "but I will take notice on it too."
Fancy mother having it always, ever since we were babies." "Don't, Mim." "All right. I won't tell you the words he said, how he put it about the difficulty of getting the money for my things." "Don't, Mim." Miriam's mind went back to the phrase and her mother's agonised face. She felt utterly desolate in the warm room.
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