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"Now, by heaven!" exclaimed his Lordship, jerking his imprisoned legs pettishly, "if I didn't happen to be sitting trussed up here, and we had a couple of pair of muffles, why we might have had a friendly 'go' just to take each other's measures; as it is "
Soon I caught a glimpse of the chimneys of Shady Side thrust above the evergreens; a curl of smoke was floating upward, filling the air with a filmy haze. At this sign of life within, my heart gave a bound. Muffles was still there! When I swung back the gate and mounted the porch a feeling of uncertainty came over me. The knocker was gone, and so was the sign.
There are tables, of course a dozen in all, perhaps, some in white cloths and some in bare tops, bare of everything except the glass of beer it depends very largely on what one orders, and who orders it but the servants are missing unless you count Muffles and his stable-boy. On Sunday mornings and this tale begins with a Sunday morning Muffles always shaved himself on this back porch.
And then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda on the Reindeer, which ran as fast as it could. "Oh, I haven't my boots! I haven't my muffles!" cried Gerda. She soon noticed that in the cutting cold; but the Reindeer dared not stop.
Then my Parsee neighbor arises and girds up his loins, muffles his haggard face more closely than before, and with dishevelled beard, and chin sadly sunk upon his breast, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, and meeting no man's gaze, wends silently homeward.
More tables were set out under the trees; Bowser got an assistant; Muffles wore better clothes; the Missus combed out her hair and managed to wear a tight-fitting dress, and it was easy to see that fame and fortune awaited Muffles or what he considered its equivalent.
An instant before her voice was heard he had been persuading himself that the points of unlikeness between his young Aminta and this tall and stately lady of the proud reserve in her bearing flouted the resemblance. "Emile is as anglomane as ever, and not a bit less a Frenchman," Weyburn said, in a tone of one who muffles a shock at the heart.
Silently there came out of the thicket half a dozen men on foot, but all enveloped in black robes, wearing red masks, and with their feet clad in moccasins, while a quick glance at the hoofs of the horse ridden by the chief showed that he had muffles on, to prevent making a track. The girl calmly surveyed the scene.
Steele mentions with great tenderness "that remarkable bashfulness which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit;" and tells us "that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed." Chesterfield affirms that "Addison was the most timorous and awkward man that he ever saw."
The wife laughed, passed it back to Muffles and, with a friendly nod to me, kept on to the kitchen. "Bar-room ain't no place for women," Muffles remarked in an undertone when his wife had disappeared. "Dat's why de Missus ain't never 'round. And when de kids grow up we're goin' to quit, see? Dat's what de Missus says, and what she says goes!" All that summer the Shady Side prospered.
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