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"'He looks like a very ignorant, common person, says she, loud and clear, so that everybody, includin' the 'ignorant person' himself, could hear her. 'However, James'll superintend. James, she orders the shofer, 'you see that it is well done, won't you? Make him be very careful. "James looked Butler over from head to foot. 'Humph! he sniffs, contemptuous, with a kind of half grin on his face.
'Yes, marm, I'll 'tend to it. "So he steered the auto into the barn, and Simeon got busy. Judgin' by the sharp language that drifted out through the door, 'twas plain that the shofer was superintendin' all right. "Jonadab heaves in sight, bowin', and makes proclamation that dinner is served. The pair riz up majestic and headed for the dinin' room.
'Yup, she says, 'I'm chambermaid here and they treat me fine. Thank you very much for gettin' me the situation. "'But but them doin's the other day? That automobile and them silks and satins and ? "'Mr. Van Wedderburn lent 'em to me, she said, 'him an' his wife. And he lent us the auto and the shofer, too.
"Jonadab was at the bottom step to welcome 'em, bowin' and scrapin' as if his middle j'int had just been iled. I wa'n't fur astern, and every boarder on deck was all eyes and envy. "The shofer opens the door of the after cockpit of the machine, and the man gets out fust, treadin' gingerly but grand, as if he was doin' the ground a condescension by steppin' on it.
He was young Stumpton's automobile skipper-shover, or shofer, or somethin' they called him. He answered to the hail of Billings, and his home port was the Stumpton ranch, 'way out in Montana. He'd been here in Orham only a couple of weeks, havin' come plumb across the United States to fetch his boss the new automobile. You see, 'twas early October.
However, Albert, says she to the side-whiskered man, 'you had better give the girl our usual tip. She looks as if she needed it, poor thing! "Then they paraded out of the room, and I see Susannah sling the half dollar the man had left on the table clear to Jericho, it seemed like. "The auto was waitin' by the piazza steps. The shofer and Butler was standin' by it.
A shofer I b'lieve that's what they call the tribe was at the helm of it, and on the back seat, lollin' luxurious against the upholstery, was a man and a woman, got up regardless in silk dusters and goggles and veils and prosperity. I never expect to see the Prince of Wales and his wife, but I know how they'd look after seein' them two.
"They climbed into the cockpit, the shofer took the helm, and they was ready to start. But I couldn't let 'em go that way. Out I run. "'Say say, Effie! I whispers, eager. 'For the goodness' sakes, what's all this mean? Is that your your "'My husband? Yup, she whispers back, her eyes shinin'. 'Didn't I tell you to look out for my prophecy? Ain't he handsome and distinguished, just as I said?
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