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Hendrik and Swartboy only accompanied him, for he could not yet bring himself to leave the children with no other protection than Totty almost as much a child as themselves. Hans, therefore, remained by the camp. At first the hunters followed the little rivulet that ran from the spring and vley.
You'll please to tell me what you did mean! He was about to answer lightly, but altered his intention and said: 'I can't do that. It's not my business. 'As you please. I shall go and ask Mrs. Bower what's going on. 'I can't prevent you. But listen here, Totty. If you repeat what they tell you if you repeat it once you're not the girl I thought you.
A great enemy to night plunderers was that same gun-trap. Now that the beasts of prey had been destroyed, or driven from about the camp, there was no longer any danger in that quarter, and the children could be left by themselves. Totty of course always stayed with them; while the four hunters went forth upon the chase of the elephant each mounted upon his quagga.
Do I care for him properly? Suddenly she thought of Thyrza; she remembered Thyrza's question: 'Do you love him, Totty? No, she did not love him. She had known it for a good many weeks. And, what was more, she had known perfectly well that he did not love her. There it was, no doubt. 'If he loved me, I should love him. I could; I think I could. Not like Thyrza loved Mr.
Saunders had written "Kennie, six years old," and the date, or "Totty, aged nine" she never tired of looking at them now, and of telling Susan that the buttons on Ella's dress had been of sterling silver, "made right from Papa's mine," and that the little ship Kenneth held had cost twenty-five dollars. All of her conversation was boastful, in an inoffensive, faded sort of way.
She was eager not to lose this evening's opportunity; and after tea, when the boys were going into the garden and Totty begged to go with them, Hetty said, with an alacrity that surprised Mrs. Poyser, "I'll go with her, Aunt."
'We've been to the butcher's with Miss Nancarrow, father, declared the boy, consciously improving on his sister's report. Totty had drawn back a step at the sight of Grail. He and she knew each other by sight, but had not yet exchanged words. 'I found them in the dark, Mr. Bunce, she said, half laughing. 'Mrs. Ladds was out, and couldn't get back in time to light the lamp for them.
Totty had discovered that couples who wedded and went to live in one furnished room seldom got along well together. It was well if the wife did not shortly go about with ugly-looking bruises on her face, or with her arm in a sling. No, to be sure, Luke Ackroyd was not a man of that kind; it was inconceivable that he should ever be harsh to her, let alone brutal.
Totty had no need to affect amusement; her tendency to laughter was such that very little sufficed to keep her in the carelessly merry frame of mind which agreed with her, and on the whole it was not disagreeable to be sitting by Luke Ackroyd; she glanced at him surreptitiously at times. He drank two or three glasses of beer, then felt a need of stronger beverage.
Adam rose too, for he saw Dinah entering, with her bonnet on and a little basket in her hand, preceded by Totty. "You're ready, I see, Dinah," Adam said; "so we'll set off, for the sooner I'm at home the better." "Mother," said Totty, with her treble pipe, "Dinah was saying her prayers and crying ever so." "Hush, hush," said the mother, "little gells mustn't chatter."
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