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For I take shame to own it, Mr Nanjivell, but at sight o' that boundless gold Satan whispered in the poor mite's ear, an' he started priggin'. . . . The way we found it out was, he came home from Mrs Pengelly's stinkin' o' peppermints: an' when we nosed him an' asked how he came to be favoured so, all he could say on the ground hop was that he'd met a shinin' Angel unexpected in Cobb's Ally: an' the Angel had stopped him and pulled out a purse an' said, 'Alcibiades Penhaligon, the Lord has been much interested of late in your goin's-out an' your comin's-in, an' what a good boy you've a-been.
"I declar, Jos, think o' sech a mite's this bein' aout'n this weather. I'll jest warm up some milk for it this minnit." "Better see't th' mother fust, Ri," said Jeff, leading, half carrying, Ramona into the hut. "She's nigh abaout froze stiff!" But the sight of her baby safe and smiling was a better restorative for Ramona than anything else, and in a few moments she had fully recovered.
And he turned his face to the wall. Then they all went back to the kitchen. The goat's food was done. Zalia hung the kettle with water on the hook and made coffee; and the four women sat round the table telling one another stories of illness. In the other room there was no sound. A bit later, Mite's little girl came to see where mother was all this time.
She crept into the dark goat-house, put down the pot with the food and started milking. "Betje, Betje, Zeen is so ill; Zeen may be dying, Betje!" She always clacked to her goat like that. Two streams of milk came clattering in turns into the little pail. People came: Treze and Mite's little girl, with a lantern, and Barbara Dekkers, who had also come to have a look.
Then they saw a lean hand draw out of its mit and proceed to touch a swelling on the little mite's neck. They understood. And when the figure finally passed on out of sight, they returned to their work, each man absorbed in his own thought, each man with a surge of deep feeling for that lonely figure. For they were all men who knew, and understood the man who lived in the twilight of the forests.
And in demonstration of his directions the General put one bare foot in the middle of the mite's back and administered a short series of rotary motions, which immediately brought a response of ecstatic gurgles. "We'll come back for her as soon as we dig him up," he added, as he prepared for another flying leap across the spring stream.
To go and not even think of telling her good-by was cruel, and a forlorn little sob stifled itself in the mite's pink apron. "Well, folks," broke in the widow's cheerful voice that somehow reminded one of peaches and cream, "I come over to-day to get a little help and encouragement about planning the wedding.
"Are you going ashore again to the show to-night?" "Yes," Vane answered. "It's a long while since I've struck an entertainment of any kind, and that yellow-haired mite's dancing is one of the prettiest things I've seen." "You've been twice already," Carroll hinted. "The girl with the blue eyes sings her first song rather well."
Mite, dear, no! when his fat little hands had grasped an ivory paper-cutter, and its blade was on the way to the button mouth. 'No! as he paused and looked at her. 'Here's Mite's ball! poor little dear, do let him have it' and Mite, reading sympathy in his aunt's face, laughed in a fascinating triumphant manner, and took a bite with his small teeth.
They sent her into village shops to demand "a halfpenny- worth of pennies," they kept her shivering in the drive staring at the lions on the top of the gate-posts, to see them wag their tails when they heard the clock strike twelve; they despatched her into the garden with neat little packets of salt to put on the birds' tails, and watched the poor mite's efforts in contortions of laughter from behind the window curtains.
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