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"Oh, I should so much like to see him!" cried Hortense, smiling. "To see what a man can be like who can love the Nanny Goat?" retorted Lisbeth. "He must be some monster of an old clerk, with a goat's beard!" Hortense said to her mother. "Well, then, you are quite mistaken, mademoiselle." "Then you mean that you really have a lover?" Hortense exclaimed in triumph.
A little farther on lay another figure on his back, but as Nanny stooped over it, a lantern was flashed on her and a gruff voice called out, "Villains, ungodly churls, be you robbing the dead?" and a tall man stood darkly before them, pistol in hand. "No, sir; no, sir," sobbed out Nanny. "I am only a poor widow woman, come down to see whether my poor lad be dead or alive and wanting his mother."
For Nanny was good to look at. Then he began to talk in an odd, quiet way as if they two were at home alone and the world was shut out and far away. And he told her the story of that locked drawer in Hen Tomlins' chiffonier. That drawer and Hen's growing stubbornness, due no doubt to the gradual coming on of his serious illness, had very nearly been the death of poor, dictatorial Agnes Tomlins.
We were given to respecting those who worked hard, but Nanny, we thought, was a woman of means, and Sanders let us call her a miser. He was always anxious, he said, to be generous, but Nanny would not let him assist a starving child. They had really not a penny beyond what Nanny earned at the loom, and now we know how Sanders shook her if she did not earn enough.
"I must come, dear," she answered. "Nanny thinks she is lovely," he announced. "She says I am in love with her. Am I, mother?" "You are too young to be in love," she said. "And even when you are older you must not fall in love with people you know nothing about." It was an unconscious bit of Scotch cautiousness which she at once realized was absurd and quite out of place. But !
It is brought to the city mule-back in porous jars. You can have your milk from the black, white or brown nanny as desired. A goat is a respected member of the family and his odor by comparison not offensive. Never after four months in Tripolitania did John laugh at the Englishman who carried his tub with him. He is an experienced traveler and knows what he is about. A cold bath cost John $1.50.
Nanny Pulsifer, by the way, will come every day and straighten up the house. I saw Mrs. Bolum, and she said she would keep an eye on Nanny Pulsifer, for Nanny is likely to get one of her religious spells and quit work. When you hear her singing hymns around the house, you are to tell Mrs. Bolum." "Who will look after Mrs. Bolum? To whom must I appeal when I see signs there?" "When Mrs.
"You're waur than her, Nanny," Sanders said roughly, "for you hae twa reasons for kenning better. In the first place, has Mr. Dishart no keeped you in siller a' the time I was awa? and for another, have I no been at the manse?" My head rose now. "He gaed to the manse," Nanny explained, "to thank Mr. Dishart for being so good to me. Ay, but Jean wouldna let him in.
Dishart he'll soon cure your ignorance." "I shall not see much more of him," Babbie answered, with averted head. "The like o' you couldna expect it," Nanny said, simply, whereupon Babbie went to the window. "I had better be stepping," Nanny said, rising, "for I am aye late unless I'm on the hill by the time the bell begins. Ay, Babbie, I'm doubting my merino's no sair in the fashion?"
"But oh most of all, I want to hear Green Valley folks say with their eyes and hands and voice 'Hello, Nanny Ainslee, when did you get back' and 'My, Nanny, it's good to see and have you home again. So, John Roger Churchill Knight, take me down to see my home town Green Valley at springtime." They went down through Green Valley streets where the spring sunshine lay warm and golden.
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