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"Servants all going to the devil in this country," said he at last; "proud fools won't clean rooms after black people, I suppose yes, that's it, confound them all, black and white! here's my whole establishment upset by the arrival of a baby. Well, it is very uncomfortable what shall I do? send for sister Moggy? no, I'll send for Jonathan."
All this, of course, was so much 'Hebrew-Greek, as honest Father Roach was wont to phrase it, to the scared women. 'What's your name? 'Moggy Sullivan, if you please, Ma'am. 'And what's yours? 'Lizabet Betty they call me Madam; Lizabet Burke, if you please, Madam. 'Well, then, Moggy Sullivan and Elizabeth Burke, harkee both, while I tell you a thing.
One of these lovers was absent on a hunting expedition at the time we discovered Aneetka; the other, a surly fellow, and disliked by the most of his comrades, was in the camp. From the day of her son's death, a feeling of sympathy had sprung up between Old Moggy and the Esquimau girl, and this had gradually strengthened into affection. "Thus matters stood when we fell in with her.
These thoughts made him very uncomfortable, and he would have been glad to go anywhere, or do anything which would enable him to cast them away from him. It was a great relief when his father came with the medicine and other things for Old Moggy, and told him that he might take them to her, but must return immediately to his room, without stopping to talk to any one.
"Who have we here, old Father Abraham?" exclaimed a stout man, who was dressed in a buff jerkin, and a pair of boots which rose above his knees. "A good man and true," replied Nancy, taking up the answer. "Why, you don't call that thing a man!" exclaimed the fierce-looking confederate, with contempt. "As good a man as ever stood in your boots," replied Moggy, in wrath.
It was in pedestrianism that Jemmy most felt his inferiority, and the protecting, fond way in which Moggy would turn round every minute and say, "Come along, my duck," would have been irritating to any other but one of Jemmy's excellent temper.
That evening there came to the door of the Mills, a damsel, with a wide basket on her arm, the covering of which being removed, a goodly show of laces, caps, fans, wash-balls, buckles, and other attractions, came out like a parterre of flowers, with such a glow as dazzled the eyes of Moggy, at the study window. 'Would you plaze to want any, my lady? enquired the pedlar.
Arn't there Ella Flanagan for one maid, and Terence Driscol for a footman? and it's well that he looks in his new uniform, when he comes down for the newspapers; and arn't Moggy Cala there to cook the dinner, and pretty Mary Sullivan for a nurse for the babby as soon as it comes into the world?
He was not aware that in the Materia Medica of Nature's laboratory there is a substance called "joy," which sometimes effects a cure when all else fails or, if he did know of this medicine, he probably regarded it as a quack nostrum. At all events this substance cured old Moggy, as Willie said, "in less than no time." She took such deep draughts of it, that she quite surprised her old friends.
"I can douse a glim anyhow," cried Jemmy. "That's my darling duck," cried Moggy, delighted with this proof of her husband's vigour. Some confusion was created by this manoeuvre on the part of Jemmy, but candles were reproduced, and the first man who spoke, feeling as if this victory on the part of Jemmy was a rebuke to himself, again commenced his interrogations.
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