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It was evidently ill at ease, without apparently knowing why. "Did it growl, then?" said Miss Peppy in a reproachful tone, as she stooped to pat the head of the spoiled creature. "Ah, it mustn't growl, for that is naughty, you know, darling Rosebud. Eh! doing it again? Oh! bad little snarley-warley, growly-wowly.
Another moment and Miss Peppy vanished from the scene, leaving the housekeeper to return home in despair, from which condition she was relieved by the cook, who at once concluded that the "dear pie" must mean the venison pasty, and forthwith prepared the dish for dinner.
Arrived at Wreckumoft, Miss Peppy hastened to her brother's residence.
Miss Peppy thrust her right hand deep into that mysterious receptacle of household miscellanies her pocket, and fingered the contents inquiringly for a few moments. "What are you looking for?" inquired her brother impatiently. "The key of the press," said Miss Peppy with a look of weariness and disappointment. "What key is that in your left hand?" said Mr Stuart.
Well, you can't answer of course, though I know that you understand every word I say." Miss Peppy suddenly shrieked, for the "sweety petty" bit her with sufficient force to show that he was not in a mood to be played with, and would do it harder next time.
Come now, cheer up, an' I'll ventur a prophecy." "What may that be?" asked Susan with a smile. "That you and I shall be spliced before two months is out. See if we won't." Susan laughed; but Dan stoutly asserted that his prophecies always came true, and then, saying that he was the bearer of a letter to Miss Peppy, he bade Susan adieu, and took himself off.
She was therefore left unmolested in her farther proceedings. Having tied on her bonnet very much awry, and put on her shawl exceedingly askew, Miss Peppy went out into the street, and going straight up to the first man she saw, asked the way to the railway station. Being directed, she ran thither with a degree of speed that any school-girl might have envied. A train was on the point of starting.
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