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"Did 'oo like it, Andoo?" she inquired presently with her head on one side. "Well, you see, missie," replied Andrew, "I lost the best thing I had there, through being a fool." "Tell Dickie all about it," said Dickie in a coaxing voice. She turned her little barrow upside down as she spoke, sat down upon it, and placed one mittened hand on each knee. "Dickie kite yeddy.
Are you sure you made the sandwiches?" "I'se jest as shuah, Missie Nan, as I am dat I'se standin' heah. I'se jest as shuah as I is dat time when I made de corn cakes, an' somebody tuck dem! Dat's how shuah I is! Dem sandwiches what was fo' de excursnick am done gone completely." "But have you looked everywhere, Dinah?" asked Nan. "Eberywhere! Under de table an' on top ob de table.
"Miss Grizzel said I was to wake you at your usual time this morning, missie," she said. "I hope you don't feel too tired to get up." "Tired! I should think not," replied Griselda. "I was awake this morning ages before you, I can tell you, my dear Dorcas. Come here for a minute, Dorcas, please," she went on. "There now, sniff my handkerchief. What do you think of that?"
"It's beautiful," said Dorcas. "It's out of the big blue chinay bottle on your auntie's table, isn't it, missie?" "Stuff and nonsense," replied Griselda; "it's scent of my own, Dorcas. Aunt Grizzel never had any like it in her life. There now! Please give me my slippers, I want to get up and look over my lessons for Mr. Kneebreeches before he comes.
"Do you mind if we look about for a few minutes first?" "Look about to your heart's content, my dear," she said genially. "Well, little missie," to Poppy, "'tis nice to see so many young ladies about Dorsham; 'tis what we ain't over-blessed with.
But I have been always told my feelings of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, enjoyment and privation, are much colder than those of other people. "I think the Romans call it stoicism." Missie was in the drawing-room, and overheard William Clerk and me laughing excessively at some foolery or other in the back-room, to her no small surprise, which she did not keep to herself.
"Has you ever seen a circus, Andoo?" "Aye, missie." "When has you seen it?" "Years ago, little missie years ago. When I was a fool." "Is you fool now, Andoo?" Dickie dismissed the subject for the moment, and turned her attention to the little green barrow full of sticks which she had just wheeled into the potting shed.
It is the house they have bought, not us; and if she wishes to know when it will be at her disposal, you may tell her we will be out of it' she hesitated a moment, and her voice trembled as she added, 'as soon as we can move the furniture; in a week, if possible. Still David lingered. 'It's just that the furniture, I mean that she'll be after, I'm thinking. I know it's hard on you, missie.
Presently, however, the doses of powerful spirit took effect on him, and he began to talk more unguardedly than was his custom, even with his black "familiar" Hendrik. "How long have you been here?" he asked of his retainer. "About four days, Baas." "Did you take my letter to Oom Croft's?" "Yah, Baas. I gave it to the missie." "What did she do?"
Otherwise I would certainly stop here in the camp, where there is plenty to eat and little work to do, as, were I you, I should do also for love of that white missie. But duty pah! that is a fool-word, which makes bones of a man before his time and leaves his girl to others." "Of course, you do not understand, Hans, any more than you coloured people understand what gratitude is.
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