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'No, the Sofy, said Mysie. 'A Sofy is a Persian philosopher, and this kitten has got the wisest face. 'Run and fetch them, suggested her aunt, 'and then we can choose. Oh, she added, with some relief at the thought, 'if it is an object to dispose of Cockie, we could manage him.
"She's got the best sofy out, an' was warmin' things up when I left." Sinclair made no reply. He was cold, stiff, and too much exhausted to enter into conversation. Not until he was stretched out on the big cosy sofa in front of the cheerful fire, after his sprained ankle had been bathed and well rubbed, did he become talkative.
Miss Milly slept in Miss Rose's bedroom, for a bit, and Miss Ethel on the sofy in the drawing-room not as you might call that sleeping. Miss Rose said you was to have some tea before you got up, ma'am. Shall I tell cook to get it now? 'I really think I should prefer to have it downstairs, Bessie, thanks, said Leonora. 'Very well, ma'am. But Miss Rose said 'Yes, but I will have it downstairs.
I like to pertend it's all a great big house where I live, and there's carpets and lace curtings to the winders, and a real gold sofy with pink-velvet cushings! And when I come down and see one of the company's ottymobiles standin' by the curb waitin', I like to pertend it's mine, only I don't ride 'cause I've been ridin' so much I'd ruther walk! Don't you ever do that, Katie?"
Now here it was again, the spectre of her queerness rising to distress him. She looked at him with wide, affrighted eyes. "You set here with me a spell," she adjured him. "I'll lay down on the sofy, and you take the big rocker. If you see it comin' up in me, you kinder say somethin', and mebbe it'll go away." Myron, though in extreme unwillingness, did as he was bidden.
But you 'aven't got no memory nor nothin'!" "Where is it, then, Maria dear? For my poor head's splitting " "Why, in th' basket as stan' agin your sofy, where you put it yourself, for I see ye do it."
'M-m-m-m-ps-pss-psss! from the Sofy, two screams from Val and Fergus, a buffeting of paws, a couple of wild bounds, first on a chair-back, then on the mantelpiece, where, between the bronze candlestick and the vase, the Persian philosopher stood hissing and swearing, while Kunz danced about and barked.
I burned THAT. So that nobody knows nothin'." It was not a time for strictly grammatical negatives, and I am afraid that the girl's characteristically familiar speech, even when pathetically corrected here and there by the influence of the convent, endeared her the more to him. And when she said, "And now, Mr. Edward Brice, sit over at that end of the sofy and let's talk," they talked.
The people from up stairs came to see what was the matter, as I was cussin and crying out. "It's only Charles, ma," screamed out Miss Betsy. "Where's Mary?" says Mrs. Shum, from the sofy. "She's in Master's room, miss," said I. "She's in the lodger's room, ma," cries Miss Shum, heckoing me. "Very good; tell her to stay there till he comes back."
D-d'you know they're still trotting?" At last the bays swung off upon the steep Hill Road, and slowed down to a fast, pulling walk. Old William dropped the reins on the dash-board, made a telling shot with tobacco juice at a sunflower three yards off, and turned to have a chat. "Glen," he said, "I reckon, after all, there's times when you c'n do without sofy pillows."
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