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cruel a joke with me. She will appear as the star of rescue of
my lire."
The lieutenant-colonel went in search of A_mena, and found
ber in the pantry, preparing grit sausages.
"Look here! dear child, that man, the chamberlain, does hot
please me any more, and as you do hot seem fo like him, if would
be wrong for me to force you fo marry him. Dress up a little,
therefore, and go to the ante-chamber, whero he is waiting for
you, to hear from your own lips the decision; after which he
may prepare his carriage, and drive fo the devil, for all I care.
0ne cannot feed a suitor for nothing."
"#kssuredly not," replied Amelia, laughing; "tha# can be seea
by out haros and sausages." :Neither did she wonder a# the
change in ber father’s plans, as ber mother had lately hinted it
# ber. "But if you wish me fo dismiss the chamberlain, you
will first allow me fo finish my work here."
":No, my child; before you had finished, he would fall into a
fit, oui of pure expectation. ’What should be done to-day,
don’# put off for the morrow.’"
As soon as the lieutenant-colonel commenced citing from the
Bible, Amelia knew tha# he was in good spirits, and #vithout
answering, she was reminded of #he words of the poet, "Xt is
woman’s lot fo sacrifice," untied ber apron, and throwing if over
the vessel filled with grits, tied the spice-woods into a bundle,
and sallied forth fo ber owa room, for the purpose of arranging
ber hair. Shen thea a#tired herself with a clean apron and
neckerchief, and, firs# washing ber hands, hurried into the room
where De Goesse was, #o wish hlm a happy journey.
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