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The woman knit her brows; the problem set her was too difficult. 'I couldna tell ye just exactly. There's Miss Macdonald she that's at home yet; she'll be over fifty. 'Oh! The maid gave a cheerful note of interested understanding. 'It'll be her perhaps that wrote to me; the mistress'll be an old lady.
Barry, thin, shure she'd spake av' she were able." "Go away, you fool! Your mistress'll be out in a minute." Then, after a moment's consideration, he went and unlocked the door, "or go in, and see what she wants. She's fainted, I think."
"This is Inkala yes," answered the girl. "Is the master at home?" "No; he went off to Muurila this morning." "H'm. And when's he coming back?" "Don't know at all. But maybe mistress'll know. If you'd go in by the front way, I'll tell her." Olof walked up the front steps. Hardly had he entered the room when a slender, fair-haired woman appeared from within.
Cai commanded, forgetting that the man was deaf. "If your mistress'll stand back in the path a bit, I'll pick out the shoots one by one and hold 'em up for her to see, so's she can tell me which to cut away." "You'll scratch your hands to ribbons," Mrs Bosenna warned him. "'Tisn't worth while comin' down for a pair of hedgin' gloves. . . . I say, though I've a better notion!
"Sure, you've give me a nice fright prowlin' about like thaves and whoiver may be the ould man wid ye? The mistress'll stand no tramps or beggars about, as well you know." "He's no tramp or beggar," I retorted, stoutly, "he's Granfa." "Granfa! Granfa who? Noan o' your nonsense, now, byes. What's the truth now, spit it out!"
"There he is again," said Laura. "Sh! don't laugh so loud. There! now he's stopping again!" "He's whistling to a bird," said Oliana. "Or talking to himself perhaps. Do you think he's quite right in his head?" "Sh! The mistress'll hear." It was no less a person than the master of Loreng himself whose proceedings struck them as so comic.
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