8/9 As it is, we've only a couple of ducks--and they were intended for you. I shall want you .-- Sorry to quit your lord--worships, I mean,--I don't know what I mean," she added, a little confused, and dropping a profound curtsey to the disguised noblemen, each of whom replied by a bow, worthy, in her opinion, of a prince of the blood at the least,--"but I've a few necessary orders to give below." "Don't mind us, Ma'am," said Mr.Jackson: "ha! ha!" "Not in the least, Ma'am," echoed Mr.Smith: "ho! ho!" "How condescending!" thought Mrs.Wood. "Not proud in the least, I declare. Well, I'd no idea," she continued, pursuing her ruminations as she left the room, "that people of quality laughed so. |