seems a little shock at first to those on trust in families. But Dannel

is a brave boy, and might fight his way to glory, and then they has

the pick of the femmels up to a thousand pound a year. You know what

happened the miller's son, no further off than Upton. And if it hadn't

been for Dannel, when she was a little chit, where would proud Miss

Dolly be, with her feathers and her furbelows? Natur' is the thing

I holds by, and I sees a deal of it. And betwixt you and me and the

bedpost, ma'am, whoever hath Miss Dolly will have to ride to London on

this here scythe. Miss Faith is the lass for a good quiet man, without

no airs and graces, and to my judgment every bit as comely, and more

of her to hold on by. But the Lord 'a mercy upon us. Mrs. Cloam, you've

a-been married like my poor self; and you knows what we be, and we knows

what you be. Looks 'ain't much to do with it after the first week or

two. It's the cooking, and the natur', and the not going contrairy.

B'lieve Miss Dolly would go contrairy to a hangel, if her was j'ined to

him three days."

"Prejudice! prejudice!" the housekeeper replied, while shaking her

finger severely at him. "You ought to be above such opinions, Mr.

Swipes, a superior man, such as you are. If Miss Faith came into your

garden reading books, and finding fault here and there, and sniffing

at the flowers, a quarter so often as pretty Dolly does, perhaps you

wouldn't make such a perfect angel of her, and run down her sister in

comparison. But your wonderful Miss Faith comes peeping here and poking

there into pots and pans, and asking the maids how their mothers are, as

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