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Updated: June 5, 2025
The house was of timber, with a deep timbered verandah; and in the verandah, not twenty paces away, beside a table laid for coffee, stood Tatty with three ladies about her three ladies all elegantly dressed and staring.
They sat later the gentlemen by their wine on the stone terrace overlooking the wide champaign. "But," said Ruth, for she observed that the boy was restless, "I must leave Tatty to play hostess while I take a scamper with Dick. There's a pool below here, Dicky, with oh, such trout!" Dicky was on his feet in a trice. "Rods?" "Rods, if you will.
His voice was steady, his eye clear, and only a touch of pallor told of the overnight debauch. "I am here to be forgiven." "Who am I, to forgive?" "If you say that, you make it three times worse for me. Whatever you are does not touch my right to ask your pardon, or my need to be forgiven which is absolute." "No," she mused, "you are right. . . . Have you asked pardon of Tatty?"
"'Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire?" "My slave?" he asked. "Setting aside last night when I was disgustingly drunk have you a single excuse for using that word?" "Of your giving, none. You have been more than considerate. Of my own choosing, yes." He stared. "At any rate Tatty is not your slave," she went on, and he smiled with her.
Ruth stepped close to the little lady. Said she, standing straight before her and looking down, "It cost you some courage to say that." "It may cost me more to-morrow; but I am not afraid." "My brave Tatty! But the courage is thrown away, for I am going." "You do not mean this?" "I do mean it. My master sends for me. You know what duty I owe him." "He is just.
Dear Ruth, I do not know if you have thought of returning to Sabines. . . . So much handier. . . ." Ruth, half-wilfully, refused to think of returning to Sabines. But if Tatty fussed, the Cordery lads made more than recompense for her fussing. From the hour when, at supper-time, Sir Oliver led Miss Josselin into the kitchen, his bride affianced, all discord ceased between these young men.
The name of Beadle being out of the question, and the originator of the Institution for these poor foundlings having been a blessed creature of the name of Coram, we gave that name to Pet's little maid. At one time she was Tatty, and at one time she was Coram, until we got into a way of mixing the two names together, and now she is always Tattycoram.
Now, Harriet we changed into Hattey, and then into Tatty, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effect, don't you see? As to Beadle, that I needn't say was wholly out of the question.
Towards the end he would bring home his boon companions I will say this for poor dear George, that his footsteps, at their unsteadiest, ever tended homeward; he never affected low haunts and it fell to me as the eldest daughter of the house to keep his hospitality within bounds " "Dear Tatty!" Ruth stooped and kissed the plain little face, cutting short the narrative.
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