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"Ruthie gives too much measure," replied Dotty, untwisting her apron "'most two quarts; and when Katie and I ask for some in our nipperkins, Ruthie says, 'No, she must make butter. I was just as thirsty, grandma, and I thought Mrs. Gray never would care; I did certainly." "Yes, gamma, we fought Mis Gay would care; did cerdily!" "My dear Dotty," said Mrs.
On the great stair she encountered M. Froumois, the Intendant's valet, a favorite gossip of the dame's, who used to invite him into her snug parlor, where she regaled him with tea and cake, or, if late in the evening, with wine and nipperkins of Cognac, while he poured into her ear stories of the gay life of Paris and the bonnes fortunes of himself and master for the valet in plush would have disdained being less successful among the maids in the servants' hall than his master in velvet in the boudoirs of their mistresses.
Sometimes Katie went with her, and then they always paused a while under the acorn-tree and played "King and Queen." Dotty said she wished they could ever remember to bring their nipperkins, for in that case the milk would taste a great deal more like nectar. The "nipperkins" were a pair of handled cups which the children supposed to be silver, and which they always used at table.
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