I will do my best for you, mam'zelle; trust me, I will study to do my best, and make you very happy here.

I will be ready to take you away whenever you desire to go.

Look upon me as your hired servant." He waited upon me all the evening, but with a quick attention to my wants, which I had never met with in any hired servant.

It was not unfamiliar to me, for in my own country I had often been served only by men; and especially during my girlhood, when I had lived far away in the country, upon my father's sheep-walk.

I knew it was Tardif who fried the fish which came in with my tea; and, when the night closed in, it was he who trimmed the oil-lamp and brought it in, and drew the check curtains across the low casement, as if there were prying eyes to see me on the opposite bank.