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This same Miss Tippet is some sort of a relation o' Mr Auberly, who sent me to her with a note, and she has sent me with another note to her brother near London Bridge, who, I s'pose, will send me with another note to somebody else, so I'm on my way down to see him. I thought I'd look in to ask after you in passin', and cheer you on to dooty."
She could scarcely enunciate. Her very tongue seemed stiff with the cold. The man turned and stared at her with sharp blue eyes under red brows frost-white between his cap and twice-wound red tippet. "Hey?" he said, in a muffled voice. "Can you tell me where Mr. Otis lives?" "Otis?" "Yes, sir." "Which Otis d'ye mean? There's two Otises. D'ye mean Calvin Otis or Jim Otis?"
The first man to try the door was an old Norwegian in a spotted Mackinac jacket and a fur cap, with the inevitable little red tippet about his neck. He turned the knob, knocked, and at last saw the writing, which he could not read, and went away to tell Johnson that the bank was closed. Johnson thought nothing special of that; it was early, and they weren't very particular to open on time, anyway.
He paused for a single moment; but, seeing that Emma did not intend to speak of her own affairs, he added quickly: "I am waiting for my brother Frank. We arranged to meet here this morning. I hope that Miss Tippet is well?"
"Now, Jenny, you run up and wait for Mrs Jane; she'll be there in a minute, most like. You can hang your hood and cloak behind the door." There were no bonnets in those days, nor shawls; women wore hoods or tall hats on their heads when they went out, and cloaks in cold weather; when it was warm they merely tied on a muslin or linen tippet, fastening it with a bow of ribbon at the throat.
Then Old Age said again, Come, let us walk down the street together, and offered me a cane, an eyeglass, a tippet, and a pair of over-shoes. No, much obliged to you, said I. I don't want those things, and I had a little rather talk with you here, privately, in my study.
The shoes and the dresses, the cape and the cloak, the tippet and the hat, she put in their places; the torn apron and the unmended stockings she tumbled into her basket, then went back and folded them up neatly; she also made a journey into the woodshed expressly to put the hatchet where it belonged, on the chopping-block.
I never Turned my Tippet, as some fine gentlemen who have never seen Constantinople have done. I never changed my Principles, although I was a Bashaw with three tails. Better to have three tails than to be a Rat with only one. And, let me tell you, it is a mighty fine thing to be a Bashaw, and to have as many purses full of Sequins and Aspers as there are days in the year.
In two minutes she had a firm belief in it; and the last we see of Grace and Horace in this book, they are sitting on the piazza, eagerly talking about the next winter, when they shall both go to the cars to meet uncle Edward and the children. "They'll be there my birthday what'll you bet?" said Horace. "I shall wear my tippet when we go to the depot, and have a new hood," said Grace.
Just as the party were on the point of sitting down to luncheon, the street-door knocker was applied to the door with an extremely firm touch. "Miss Deemas!" exclaimed Miss Tippet. "Oh! I'm so glad. Rush, Matty." Matty rushed, and immediately there was a sound on the wooden passage as of a gentleman with heavy boots.
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