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whispers
Dominick Partridge did not linger u
n-len. nor dld DO pause 70 look al tie
flowers be passed az Dc sklrted the house
aLd stopped a. a low window, beside
which a wOman sat peeling peaches. She
vas dressed n black nun yelling, aDc
wore a white linen collar, and iittlr
DARK crimson bow at her throat. over
her dress va tied cheek apron she
bore traces Of great beauty Ia her face
but she was nfty years Old, and lo0kec
L.
Cousin Bee. said DominIck Partridge
hOw are yOut'
she looked Up and smiled az him.
I'm very we'll she said. I'm never
anything else, and / suppose you aren {
sick or you wouldn't be hyin round
after the girls l hear you're going 10
marry
Pm generally refused. you know. he
answered. 80 1 sha Il count my chicken
before they're hatched, this time.
She blushed-
Have peach ?" she asked They're
good"
He took one.
They don't hold a candle TO some of
mine, ne said, as he ate II. I've kept
behold for beauty, Bee. The house wants
fxin"
For bride7" added Bee.
Yes said Dominick, for a bride
She should hev her own way about
things. l could afford it, How do you
like being Mrs. Squire DObsOn's house
keeper, Bee
"LSkel- repeated Bee. "Oh, don t
expect 70 like nowadays: / just put up
with things. l can do. / don't mind
doin. Sbo likes that. She calls me
housekeepcr. I'm here because she
does; but l DO hard work for very little
pay The other servant they put cap
on and call a maid Maid and house
keeper Well, as | said, ef l WASH I
called hOusekeeper / couldn't stay, and
tried 20 sew at starvation prices after
After your husband died" said Dou.i-
nick.
After he went off," said Bee, sternly.
"But he has been dead three years"
And I've had enough fur two all this
while, said Dominick Partridge. softly.
We'll, I've no doubt one OF the Misses
Dobson will share it, said Bee. when
ST Millet told Mrs. Dobson, she was set
up, can tell you. Ia have Bella ef
were you. She's got the most sense.
They haven't any OF them got too much,
but they're pretty
"Pshawr' said Domin.ck Partridge
Bee did you heheve Simon Millet when
DO said l was such an old fool as 70 want
ono Of those little girlsl I'm not an old
man. I've got years before me. / feel
hadn't orter be alone. but don't want a
dressy baby 10 bring up. What L want,
Bee, is you. You re a dear, darling littlf
woman, and I've hankered after you ali
my life. When / heard for sure tina.
your count
He was a baron" said Bee.
"Weu, that your baron was dead,
made up my mind that I'd never left OF
loving you; and Jest four days ago l said
70 myself: "Tn 20 over to Squire Dob
sons and ask Bee again. P'raps shell
hev me this time
Il don't know what you want Of ar
old thing Ike me, said Bee; but she
laughed, and be kissed her.
Three young girls, peeping through
the hedge hard by. saw him, and clap
ping their hands softly, ran away to tel
their mother.
And he Is swfully nice, and she is
awfully nice" they cried, in a musica
chorus: "and 1t was all mistake of that
ridiculous Simon; and you ought TO b.
glad, ma. that you didn' let him find out
what you thought. One of us and Mr.
Patridgei Absurd. But it's splendid
for Bee, and romantic, for they were olC
lovers. N. Z. Ledger.