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"I'se seen Misser Gregory on de roof," said Jeff, drawing on his imagination, as he had only heard about that event through Zibbie's highly colored story, "where some other folks wouldn't dar go, and now I'se see dat house dar, which I wouldn't see dar, wasn't it for Misser Gregory." "Well, well," said Hunting, impatiently, "I've heard all about that. What else?"
"Your 'cookery, forsooth!" said he, with something of her own light tone. "That I should find Miss Walton stealing Zibbie's laurels!" "Chuckle when you find her doing it. Hannah, who prepared this breakfast?" "Yourself, miss," answered the woman, with an admiring grin. "That will do, Hannah; we will wait upon ourselves. Shame on you, sir!
She was a very practical reformer, and determined that a dainty breakfast should minister to the outer man before she sought to apply a subtler balm to the inner. Trusting not even to Zibbie's established skill, she prepared with her own hands some inviting delicacies, and soon that which might have tempted the most exacting of epicures was ready. Mr.
When he pressed Zibbie's hand and left a banknote in it, she broke out in the broadest Scotch, "Maister Gregory, an' when I think me auld gray head would ha' been oot in the stourm wi' na hame to cover it, I pray the gude God to shelter yours fra a' the cauld blasts o' the wourld." Silent Hannah, alike favored, seemed afflicted with a sudden attack of St.
All during the war the little corps of servants had remained intact. She had felt that, the war over, the danger point had been passed. Also the reason for Miss Susie's little spell was now apparent. Directly she asked more briskly, "D' you try to get any one else? Zibbie Tuttle?" "Zibbie's gone to town, too." Another moment's depressed silence. "And how about Zenie? She used to cook."
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