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"Haw, haw, haw!" roared the other members of the company, as they slowly realized Master Chuter's irony at the expense of the "voolish" Gearge. George took their rough banter in excellent part. He sipped his beer, and grinned like a cat at his own expense. But after the guffaws had subsided, he said, "Thee's not told un about that five pound yet, Master Chuter."
Yocomb began almost indignantly, "if thee hasn't any regard for thyself, thee should have some for thy friends. Thee isn't fit to leave home, and this is thy home now. Thee doesn't call thy hot rooms in New York home, so I don't see as thee has got any other. Just so sure as thee goes back to New York now, thee'll be sick again. I won't hear to it. Thee's just beginning to improve a little."
"You are quite mistaken again," I answered, smiling; but I should have been in a dilemma had he asked me if I had been dreaming. "Thee's a stranger in these parts," he continued, in a manner that suggested kindness rather than curiosity. "Possibly this is the day of my fate," I thought, "and this man the father of my ideal woman." And I decided to angle with my utmost skill for an invitation.
Father's been waiting till I said he could come; but he's so hearty-like that I won't trust him till thee's stronger." "Is is Miss Warren so hearty-like also? It seems to me her laugh would put life into a mummy." "Well, thee isn't a mummy, so she can't come till to-morrow."
And if he smile, with dulcet speech bespeak ye thus the wight: "An thou thy company wouldst grant to her, 'twere well of thee; For she for love of thee's distraught, as needs must be the case; Her eyes are ever void of sleep; she weeps and wails apace."
"I don't know, mother, what I want for myself; that doesn't matter; but for thee I would have rest from all these cruel worries thee has borne so long." She buried her face in her mother's lap and put her strong young arms about the frail, toil-bent form. "There, there, dear. Try to rule thy spirit, Dorothy. Thee's too much worked up about this. They are not worries to me.
"I know that unless thee gives thy consent, we must wait three years; but I hope, father, when thee comes to know Gilbert better, thee will not be so hard. I am thy only child, and my happiness cannot be indifferent to thee. I have tried to obey thee in all things" He interrupted her again. "Thee's adding another cross to them I bear for thee already!
He loved his foster-parents, and desired no others. He had a miller's thumb, and he flattened it with double pains now that his right to it was disputed. He would press Mrs. Lake's thin fingers against it in proof that he belonged to her, and the simple wile was successful, for she would smile and say, "Ay, ay, love! Thee's a miller's boy, for thee've got the miller's thumb."
When he had done speaking against "the mad wits that would not see," Hope laid her cool fingers on his arm and said, with a demure humour: "All the world's mad but thee and me, David and thee's a bit mad!"
"Yes, I remember that. Thank Heaven I drifted into this quiet harbor before the storm came. I should have died in New York." "Well, thee knows where to come now when thee's going to have another bad turn. I hope, however, that thee'll be too good a man to overwork so again. Now thee's talked enough." "Can I not see Mr. Yocomb, and and Miss Warren this evening?" "No, not till to-morrow.
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