I
did her errents as honorable as I'd love to have one done for me, I told
him all the petickulars, and as I finished I said firmly:
"Now can you do Serepta Pesterses errents and will you?"
He leaned forward with that disagreeable boughten smile of hisen and took
up one corner of my mantilly, it wuz cut tab fashion, and he took up the
tab and said in a low insinuatin' voice, lookin' clost at the edge of the
tab:
"Am I mistaken, or is this beautiful creation pipein' or can it be
Kensington tattin'?"
I drawed the tab back coldly and never dained a reply; agin he sez, in
a tone of amiable anxiety, "Have I not heard a rumor that bangs are
going out of style? I see you do not wear your lovely hair bang-like or
a-pompadouris? Ah, women are lovely creatures, lovely beings, every one of
'em." And he sithed, "You are very beautiful," and he sithed agin, a sort
of a deceitful lovesick sithe. I sot demute as the Spinks, and a chippin'
bird tappin' his wing aginst her stuny breast would move it jest as much as
he moved me by his talk or his sithes. But he kep' on, puttin' on a sort of
a sad injured look as if my coldness wuz ondoin' of him.
"My dear madam, it is my misfortune that the topics I introduce, however
carefully selected by me, do not seem to be congenial to you. Have you
a leanin' toward Natural history, madam? Have you ever studied into the
habits and traits of our American Wad?"
"What?" sez I.
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