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Tante Jeanne, indeed, had heard that the subconscious mind was held to account for the apparent intelligence that occasionally betrayed itself in the laboriously spelled replies; she even made use of the word from time to time to baffle Zizi's too importunate inquiries.
Then seeing his companion cast a furtive glance at him, which he mistook for one of surprise, he added quickly, "Ah, yes, yes; we are all a primitive people here not very lofty. We deal not in titles. Every one is Tante and Oom aunt and uncle. This may be my room," he said, opening the door. "It is rough, the room is rough; not a palace not quite.
"'Why what have I done? says I. 'I couldn't help getting that little scratch on the leg. "'Oh, it tante that, she said; 'it's that orrid stroke of the sun. There's your poor ead huncovered again. Where is your elmet? "'Oh, bother, sais I, 'ow do I know? Somewhere on the ground, I suppose.
Write your polite little notes, and say your first season has been too strenuous, and run away. When can you go? To-night? To-morrow morning?" "Yes, I could be ready to-night; but what shall we say to Tante Lydia?" "Half the truth," he answered. "I'll take the responsibility.
The same powdered, liveried, lazy, idle, good-for-nothin', do-little, stand-in-the-way-of-each-other, useless sarvants. Same picturs, same plate, same fixin's, same don't-know-what-to-do-with-your-self-kinder-o'-lookin'-master. Great folks are like great folks, marchants like marchants, and so on. It's a pictur, it looks like life, but' it tante.
That did rather well dash my spirits." Standing there within his arm, of her face, seen from above, only the brow, the eyelashes, the cheek visible, she was very still for a long moment. Then, gently, she said and in the gentleness he felt that she put aside the too natural suspicion that he was complaining of Tante behind her back: "She doesn't realise that I don't care at all about people.
Then, when they were back in the old house, Daddy would pull his big chair close to the lamp, Tante would take her knitting from the basket in which it was always neatly laid, and Keineth would sit down at the piano to play for her father "what the fairies put in her fingers." This had been a little game between them for a long time ever since her music lessons with Madame Henri had begun.
Well, I studied it over a long time, but I could'nt make it out: so says I, Father, how came that are bank to break? Warn't it well built? I thought that are Quincy granite was so amazin strong all natur would'nt break it. Why you foolish critter, says he, it tante the buildin that's broke, its the consarn that's smashed.
"Tante," said Marie again, "at the back of your house is an old cattle kraal made by Kaffirs, and in that cattle kraal, as I have seen, there are mealie-pits where those Kaffirs stored their grain. Now I suggest that we should put my husband into one of those mealie-pits and cover it over. There the Boers might not find him, however close they searched."
"O ma tante, how good you are!" cried Varvara Pavlovna, and she raised her handkerchief to her eyes. A page announced the arrival of Gedeonovsky. The old gossip came in bowing and smiling. Marya Dmitrievna presented him to her visitor.
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