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SKETCHES. 349
Miss Unready really excelled in doing all that her mistress ‘
desired her to do, they managed beautifully together ; al-
though Ellina’s patience was put to the proof now and then,
when she spoke about the dinner, and “ Miss Unready”
stood before her, straight as a post, rubbing her long thin
arms, “ knowing of no living means,” and having nothing
to suggest except—spinach. If the moon and all her
supposed unknown inhabitants had tumbled down upon
earth and into Miss Unready’s kitchen, she would have
looked scarcely more irresolute, terrified, and bewildered
than now, when the master of the house came home unex-
pectedly with three guests; and of all evenings in the world
just on that evening, when preparations were to be made
for baking bread for the winter, and when the larder had
not yet been stocked with its winter provisions.
At the sight of her Ellina could scarcely suppress her
vexation, and she said to her in a half angry tone: “It is
no use, Unready, looking like misery itself, but advise me
now what you think we can have for supper.”
Miss Unready rubbed her right arm, that hung straight
down, with her left hand up and down, and down and up,
but “knew of no living means.”
Ellina: “ Have we got nothing in the larder; cannot you
invent something, which can be ready in a short time?”
Unready rubbed her left arm with her right hand up and
down, and stammered : “ Yes, spinach ! ”
Ellina, impatiently: “Spinach!—but how can you,
Unready, think that four gentlemen can be satisfied with
spinach ?”
And it ended as usual: Ellina herself had to find ways °
and means, and to be this night both head and hand in the
kitchen, because Miss Unready had completely lost her
head, and, besides, every cranny, bin, and shelf in the
larder was unusually empty.
Ellina succeeded only with great difficulty in providing
what was necessary for the moment; but when supper was
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