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What I'm thankful for is that it wasn't missis's best bonnet. "Whether Ethelbertha was mollified by the proper spirit displayed in this last remark, I cannot say, but I think it probable. At all events, it was in a voice more of sorrow than of anger that she resumed her examination.
Me give you fella some," and the storeman produced two pairs well worn, which were thankfully accepted. Half an hour later one of the boys returned, bursting with indignant language. "What for, you blurry fool. You bin gib it my missis's trousers?"
"I have set your tray, sir, in missis's parlour," said Sarah, opening the door to that sanctuary; and it is impossible to describe the sense of relief with which the Perpetual Curate flung himself down on Mrs Hadwin's sofa, deranging a quantity of cushions and elaborate crochet-work draperies without knowing it. Here at least he was safe from intrusion.
She heard the back door round the corner of the house opening; a man's low voice down in the dark said: "Who's the young lady that comes out in the fields?" Another voice one of the maids answered: "The Missis's sister." "They say she's got a baby." "Never you mind what she's got." Noel heard the man's laugh. It seemed to her the most odious laugh she had ever heard.
Mah Missis's mammy wuz a widder en she gib me, mah mammy, man sistah Violet, mah two br'ers Andrew en Alfred ter Miss Jennie fer a wed'un gif'. Missis Jennie en Marster Eldridge brung us ter Nashville 'fore de war sta'ted. Mah Missis wuz good ter us. I'se bin w'll tuk keer ob, plenty ter eat en warm clothes ter w'ar. Right now I'se got on long underw'ar en mah chemise.
'Why, I met on the road a lad that fetches milk here, she stammered, 'and he asked whether we weren't in trouble at the Grange. I thought he meant for missis's sickness, so I answered, yes. Then says he, "There's somebody gone after 'em, I guess?" I stared.
Wot with 'is foolishness and his missis's temper, I see I 'ad made a mess of it. He told me she had 'ardly spoke a word to 'im for two days, and when I said being a married man myself that it might ha' been worse, 'e said I didn't know wot I was talking about. I did a bit o' thinking arter he 'ad gorn aboard agin.
Your aunt's ayah, and possibly the cook, are fellow-conspirators, and no doubt the cause of 'the Missis's' long strange illness is common talk in the compound." "What can be done to cure it? Oh, Fuchsia, do advise me!" "If I were to offer you one piece of advice you would not take it." "Well, at least allow me to hear it." "It is to clear out of the house altogether and return home."
I wish I could see my old missis's face now! This is nuts to her." "Let us go away," said Alice. "That was a very different blow to any that the gentlemen gave," said Lydia, without heeding her, to Lord Worthington. "The man is bleeding horribly." "It's only his nose," said Lord Worthington. "He's used to it." Meanwhile Cashel had followed Paradise to the ropes. "Now he has him," chuckled Skene.
"'Gadding half over the county with a lot of low soldiers, answered Amenda, continuing her work. "'You had on my hat, I added. "'Yes, sir, replied Amenda, still continuing her work, 'it was the first thing that came to hand. What I'm thankful for is that it wasn't missis's best bonnet.
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