My dooty was to stay by the door and make it fast, as custodian of all this mansion.

No little coorosity, or private resentment, could 'a borne me out in doing so.

As an outraged man I was up for rushing out, but as a trusted official, and responsible head footman, miss--for I were not butler till nine months after that--my dooty was to put the big bolt in." "And you did it, without even looking out to see if he tried to set the house on fire! Oh, Stixon, I fear that you were frightened." "Now, Miss Erma, I calls it ungrateful, after all my hefforts to obleege you, to put a bad construction upon me.

You hurts me, miss, in my tenderest parts, as I never thought Master George's darter would 'a doed.

But there, they be none of them as they used to be! Master George would 'a said, if he ever had heard it.