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Geoffrey Yorke, you have wandered far afield; I would you had time and chance to meet that lovely rebel again!" and with a deep-drawn sigh he plunged farther into the woods. "Oh, Betty, Betty," cried Miss Moppet, as the pair gained the more frequented road and cantered briskly on their homeward way, "what an adventure we have had!
"Who, that didn't know it," said he, "could be made to believe this fine-looking woman was once little Moppet, who coiled herself up to sleep on the floor of our log-cabin?" Uncle George replied, "You know I always told you it was the nature of all sorts of flowers to grow, if they had plenty of genial air and sunshine."
"O, it's only a rain-storm," said Moppet, appearing on the scene with his empty dipper. "I got tired of sleeping. I dreamed about three giants. I didn't like it. I wanted something to do. It's only my rain-storm, and you needn't mind it, you know." Dripping Sharley's poor little temper, never of the strongest, quivered to its foundations.
Moppet and the baby, and her mother's headaches; milking the cow, and kneading the bread, and darning the stockings; going to church in old hats, for what difference was it going to make to anybody now, whether she trimmed them with Scotch plaid or sarcenet cambric? coming home to talk over revivals with Deacon Snow, or sit down in a proper way, like other old people, in the house with a lamp, and read Somebody's Life and Letters.
Aunt Euphemia will no doubt bestow a sound rating on me, for, alas!" with a doleful glance downward "see the draggled condition of my habit." "Never mind your habit, Moppet," said Betty. "Thank Heaven instead that you are not lying stiff and cold at the bottom of the pond. You can never know the agony I suffered when I saw you fall; I should have plunged in after you in another second."
Moppet was always original, but this was delicious. "No, child," she said softly, "the British are some bad, some good, and there are no doubt cruel men to be found in all wars. Moppet, as you came by the north door, whom did you see on guard in the hall?" "Josiah Huntington," said Moppet promptly; "but you heard what Oliver said at supper?"
Wait until you hear the old clock on the staircase strike three; that is the hour, I have been told, when all sleep most soundly. Then Moppet will tell you if all goes right, for I shall be waiting for you, as I said, above;" and with a soft "be very, very careful to make no noise," Betty moved away from the "doll's dungeon" and Yorke bounded to his feet.
"I'm going to holler awful, and make you sit up and tell me about that little boy that ate the giant, and Cinderella, how she lived in the stove-pipe, and that man that builded his house out of a bungle of straws: and well, there's some more, but I don't remember 'em just now, you know." "O Moppet!" "I am," glared Moppet over his mug. "You made me put on a clean collar.
Betty sank back trembling into her seat beside Mrs. Seymour, the door was closed, and as the coach rolled off she caught a parting glimpse of Miss Moppet lifted high in General Wolcott's arms, kissing her hand fondly as she waved good-by. "Drat that knocker!" said Peter Provoost.
"Come here and let me bind it up," said Miss Bidwell, seizing the small sinner as she whirled past her. "How often must I tell you not to give way to such sinful temper? And talking about the devil is not proper for little girls." "Why not just as well as for older folk?" said Moppet, submitting to have a soft bit of rag bound around the bleeding thumb.
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