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She never asked no questions, but I see her eyes twinkle when I spoke of Master Martin and Miss Phemie; and then she turned sharp to the horse-dealer and said: "`John, these is fine horses; you buy these cheap-like, and we can sell 'em again to-morrow. "Then he cursed and swore, and said the hosses was old scraws, and he'd be damned afore he'd buy such hounds'-meat.
Now, considering circumstances, this innocent speech amounted to a rich sort of thing to say, but Dolly did not laugh; she might caricature Lady Augusta for the benefit of her own select circle of friends, but she never made jokes about her before Phemie, however sorely she might be tempted. So, now she helped herself to a chocolate with perfect sobriety of demeanor. "Perhaps not," she admitted.
I have seen her take just as much trouble to please Phemie and the little Bilberrys as she would take to please Griffith or or Mr. Gowan. And see how fond they were of her. If she had cared for nothing but masculine admiration, do you think Phemie would have adored her as she did, and those dull children would have been so desolate when she left them? No, I tell you.
Not a word had been spoken, but now the voices of the men rose freely together. Phemie listened with intense expectation. The explanation was simple. They were surveyors who had been caught by the overflow on Tasajara plain, had abandoned their horses on the bank of Tasajara Creek, and with a hastily constructed raft had intrusted themselves and their instruments to the current.
"Whose hay is in first, and whose orchard will yield the most cider," said Euphemia. "Yes; and how all their children are, and how many eggs go in a pudding." "I don't believe they make puddings with eggs very often," said the other sister again. "Their puddings are more like hasty puddings, I fancy." "Some of 'em make pretty good things," said old Mr. Bowdoin. "Things you can't beat, Phemie.
Miss Phemie did the work, and would have been a better farmer than her father, if Martin had let her be; but he spent a penny for every ha'penny she made, till all came to the hammer.
It was allowed here you know how women-folks talk! that the surveyor had been sweet on Clementina, but had got tired of being played by her, and took up with Phemie out o' spite. Anyhow they got married, and Harcourt gave them to understand they couldn't expect anything from him.
"I have thought so myself, Phemie." And then, as soon as possible, changed the subject. At length Phemie rose to go. As Lady Augusta was under the impression that she was merely taking the dismal daily constitutional, which was one of her unavoidable penances, it would not do to stay too long. "So I must go," lamented Phemie; "but, Dolly, if you would n't mind, I should so like to see the baby.
"Property in Rio de Janeiro! It's like being related to someone in 'Treasure Island." "'Treasure Island! Imph!" He had seen his father draw Ellen often enough to know how to do it, though he himself would never have paid enough attention to her mental life to discover it. "You're struck on that Robert Louis Stevenson, but he wasn't so much. My Aunt Phemie was with him at Mr.
'Now God be my helper, said the traveller, who happened to be the laird of Johnstone Bank, 'can this be a trick of the fiend, or can it be bonnie Phemie Irving who chants this dolorous sang?
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