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"Miss Wilet; and she says if dars not nuff ob it to satisfy yo' appetite, you's to ring for mo'." "All right; tell Mamma Vi I'm much obliged," said Max.
"There! mamma has come! Dear, dear mamma!" she said half aloud, and presently hastened from the room to meet and welcome her. But instead a servant was coming leisurely up the broad stairway. "Where is mamma, Prilla?" the young girl asked in a slightly disappointed tone. "Miss Elsie not come yet, Miss Wilet.
"Miss Wilet," said Agnes, appearing at the door, "dey says dey's waitin' suppah fo' you and de captain." "Ah, then we must not linger here! Lulu dear, let Agnes tie this ribbon on your hair. She can do it more tastefully than I. Max, I see you are dressed for the evening." "Yes, Mamma Vi, your brother Herbert showed me my room a very nice one in the story over this and had my trunk carried up.
"Miss Gracie," she asked, as she followed Grace down the stairs, "what fo' you shut ole Tab up in de dressin'-room? She's done gone an' broke Miss Wilet's bottle what hab de stuff dat smell so nice, an' cose Miss Wilet she don' like dat ar." "What makes you say I put her in there, Betty?" said Gracie. "Kase I seed you, he, he, he!"
"She didn't do it, Agnes didn't," volunteered Betty, who had stolen in after them; "it was Miss Gracie, Miss Wilet, I seed her ketch ole Tab out in de hall dere, and put her in hyar, an' shut de do onto her, an' go off up-stairs." A suspicion of the truth flashed into Violet's mind; but she put it resolutely from her; she would not believe Gracie capable of slyness and deceit.
"I don't need anything till I'm ready to have my sash tied," answered Lulu, "and then I'll come in to Mamma Vi and you to have it done. She was very good to send you, Agnes, and you to come." "La! chile, it's jus' my business to mind Miss Wilet," returned Agnes. "An' she's good to eberybody, ob cose always was."
"Oh," cried Lulu half breathlessly, "where did they come from?" "Miss Wilet sent 'em," returned Agnes, beginning her work; "an' she tole me to ax you to come in dar when I'se done fixin' ob you, an' let her see if eberyting's right. Humph! 'twon't be, kase you oughter hab ribbon for yo' hair to match wid de sash." Violet's toilet was finished.
"Mebbe she heerd de mices runnin' 'round an want ole Tab for to ketch 'em." "You go 'long and 'tend to yo' wuk. Bet, you lazy niggah," responded Agnes, pushing past her. "Miss Wilet an Miss Gracie dey'll min' dere own consarns widout none o' yo' help." The child made no reply, but stole on tiptoe after Agnes.
"Grandpa Dinsmore never likes to have us late." "Miss Rosie and Miss Lulu's up and dressed and gone into Miss Elsie's room, Miss Wilet," remarked Agnes, holding the tumbler she had brought to Gracie's lips. "Ah, that is well," said Violet, with a pleased look. "Lulu has stolen a march on us, Gracie."
"De cat, mos' likely, Miss Wilet," said Agnes, setting down her basket and glancing at puss who was stretched comfortably on the rug before the fire. "I s'pect she's been running ober de bureau, like I see her do, mor'n once 'fo' dis." "She looks very quiet now," remarked Violet, "and if she did the mischief it was certainly not intentional. But don't leave her shut up here again, Agnes."
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