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Updated: May 19, 2025
Mary managed to smother her emotions on the subject of the brandy, and the old woman chattered on, throwing out the news of the village in a series of humorous fragments, tinged in general with the lowest opinion of human nature. When the girls took leave of her, she said slily to Marcella: "An' 'ow about your plaitin', miss? though I dessay I'm a bold 'un for astin'." Marcella coloured.
The truth is, her mother's mother was pretty near to a full-blooded Ojibway not the kind you've seen plaitin' baskets for summer boarders, but a clean, straight-backed red woman, an' she claimed descent from one o' their big chiefs. I'm English stock myself, but the wild breed mixes slow: it's in her blood, Mr. McFarlane, and sometimes it worrits me.
"Well, I taught them the plaitin', miss, and as much readin' and writin' as I knew myself. It wasn't as high as it is now, you see, miss," and a delicate flush dawned on the old cheek as Mrs. Patton threw a glance round her companions as though appealing to them not to tell stories of her. But Mrs. Jellison was implacable.
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