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Everybody, too, was satisfied the vicar and Miss Pimpernell, at the success of the treat and the pleasure of the school-children; the churchwardens, that the expenses did not come out of their pockets; Lady Dasher, at Mr Mawley's attentions to her daughter, which she really thought "quite marked;" and the rest of us, more youthful members of the parish gathering, at the general delightfulness of the day's outing the excursion by water, the picnic in the park, the gipsying, the fresh breeze, the bright sun, the everything!
"And I say she's very nice!" said Seraphine Dasher, who had none of the petty dislike of her sex to praise another girl that might turn out to be a possible rival. "That's right, my dear," said Miss Pimpernell; "I'm glad, Seraphine, to hear you take the part of the absent; Miss Clyde ought to be here now she promised me to come soon after luncheon."
Remember how long it was that Jacob remained in suspense about his first love, Rachel seven, long years; and, then, he had to serve seven more for her after that!" "Ah, Miss Pimpernell!" said I, "but, seven years were not so much to the long-lived men who existed in those times, as seven months are to us ephemerals of the nineteenth century!
In another minute or two we were in the middle of a wild romp, wherein little Miss Pimpernell and the vicar were the most active participants they showing themselves to be quite as active as the younger hands; while Miss Spight and Lady Dasher were the only idle spectators.
"Ah! that's what's the matter, is it, Frank? Then why did you not come to old Sally before?" "Well, Miss Pimpernell," I replied, "I never thought of you until to- night." "Never thought of me! You are ungallant, Master Frank! But think of me next time, my dear boy, whenever you find yourself in a difficulty; and if Sally Pimpernell can help you out of it, she will, you may depend!"
In this instance, there was Miss Pimpernell, always addressing her as "Min," and me as "Frank." The Dasher girls and others soon learnt to do the same. What more likely than that we ourselves should fall into a similar friendly system? It was only reasonable; and a result which even a less alert person than yourself would have looked for.
"O you lovers, you lovers!" exclaimed little Miss Pimpernell, on my unbosoming myself to her, and recounting the incidents of my unhappy interview with Min's mother, shortly after I quitted the scene of my discomfiture. "O you lovers, you lovers! You are always, either on the heights of ecstasy, or deep down in the depths of despair!
The vicar, naturally, was delighted with my success; and, as for little Miss Pimpernell, she was quite jubilant. "Dear me, Frank!" she said, when I took the letter announcing my appointment to show her the same evening I received it. "I am so glad I can't tell you how glad my dear boy! Why, we will have you and Miss Min soon setting up house-keeping!
As she became despondent, I got sanguine; although, a tear in the soft grey eyes would have unmanned me at once. "Miss Pimpernell is going to write to me, you know," I continued, "and I to her; so you will be made acquainted with all I do and, even, think. I will write fully to the dear old lady, I promise you!"
What can one think of them when one hears them talking of `economy, and cutting down the poor clerk's salary, without dreaming of touching their own little snug incomes of five thousand a-year!" "But what has all this got to do with Frank's appointment, brother?" asked Miss Pimpernell, with a sly chuckle of satisfaction.
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