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"Very well, very well!" said the Corporal chucking up his chin, "Jacobina can take care of herself! Jacobina knows her friends and her foes as well as her master! Jacobina never injures her friends, never forgives foes. Look to yourself! look to yourself! insult my cat, insult me! Swear at Jacobina, indeed!" "If she steals my cream!" cried Peter "Did she ever steal your cream?" "No! but, if "
Indeed Anne Jacobina was godchild to the Duke and his first Duchess, whose favoured attendant her mother had been. Thus Mrs.
But it has humbug you have no humbug, Jacobina. On the faith of a man, Jacobina, you be better than the world! baugh! You takes care of your own interest, but you takes care of your master's too! You loves me as well as yourself. Few cats can say the same, Jacobina! and no gossip that flings a stone at your pretty brindled skin, can say half as much.
"Come and take a dish of tay with you in half an hour; you want a new tay-chest; something new and genteel." "I think we do," said Peter, rising and gently depositing the cat on the ground. "Aha! we'll see to it! we'll see! Good b'ye for the present in half an hour be with you!" The Corporal left alone with Jacobina, eyed her intently, and burst into the following pathetic address.
Your wife's well, I hope? and Jacobina is not that the cat's name? in high health and favour." "Hem, hem! why, to be sure, the cat's a good cat; but she steals Goody Truman's cream as she sets for butter reg'larly every night." "Oh! you must cure her of that," said Lester, smiling, "I hope that's the worst fault."
It was autumn, but in the year 1687, when again Lucy Archfield and Anne Jacobina Woodford were pacing the broad gravel walk along the south side of the nave of Winchester Cathedral.
Nay, he was not contented until Peter himself had patted her with a timorous hand, and had reluctantly submitted the said hand to the honour of being licked by the cat in return. Jacobina, who, to do her justice, was always meek enough in the presence, and at the will, of her master, was, fortunately this day, on her very best behaviour. "Them dumb animals be mighty grateful," quoth the Corporal.
"Now there's Jacobina, 'cause she's a good cat, a faithful servant, the whole village is against her: such lies as they tell on her, such wappers, you'd think she was the devil in garnet! I grant, I grant," added the Corporal, in a tone of apologetic candour, "that she's wild, saucy, knows her friends from her foes, steals Goody Solomon's butter; but what then? Goody Solomon's d d b h!
It was now that beautiful hour of twilight when lovers grow especially tender. The young traveller every instant threw his dark eyes upward, and thought not of Madeline, but her sister. The Corporal himself grew pensive, and in a few moments his whole soul was absorbed in contemplating the forlorn state of the abandoned Jacobina.
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