"Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!"
A short time after she pursued -- "I seed you go out with the
master, but I didn't know you were gone to church to be wed;" and
she basted away. John, when I turned to him, was grinning from
ear to ear.
"I telled Mary how it would be," he said: "I knew what Mr. Edward"
(John was an old servant, and had known his master when he was
the cadet of the house, therefore, he often gave him his Christian
name) -- "I knew what Mr. Edward would do; and I was certain he would
not wait long neither: and he's done right, for aught I know. I
wish you joy, Miss!" and he politely pulled his forelock.
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