Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels
“Scudder looked reprovingly at Miss Prissy, and for a few moments there was great shaking of heads and a whispered conference between the two ladies, ending in Miss Prissy's going off, saying, as she went down stairs, "Well, if women will do so, I, for my part, can't blame the men." In a few moments Miss Prissy rushed back as much discomposed as a clucking hen who has seen a hawk.
"Well, Miss Scudder, what do you think? Here's Colonel Burr come to call on the ladies!" Mrs. Scudder's first moveme...nt, in common with all middle-aged gentlewomen, was to put her hand to her head and reflect that she had not on her best cap; and Mary looked down at her dimpled hands, which were blue from the contact with mixed yarn she had just been spinning.
"Now, I'll tell you what," said Miss Prissy,"wasn't it lucky you had me here? for I first saw him coming in at the gate, and I whipped in quick as a wink and opened the bestroom window-shutters, and then I was back at the door, and he bowed to me as if I'd been a queen, and says he, 'Miss Prissy, how fresh you're looking this morning!' You see, I was in working at the Vernons', but I never thought as he'd noticed me.MoreLess
"Well, Miss Scudder, what do you think? Here's Colonel Burr come to call on the ladies!" Mrs. Scudder's first moveme...nt, in common with all middle-aged gentlewomen, was to put her hand to her head and reflect that she had not on her best cap; and Mary looked down at her dimpled hands, which were blue from the contact with mixed yarn she had just been spinning.
"Now, I'll tell you what," said Miss Prissy,"wasn't it lucky you had me here? for I first saw him coming in at the gate, and I whipped in quick as a wink and opened the bestroom window-shutters, and then I was back at the door, and he bowed to me as if I'd been a queen, and says he, 'Miss Prissy, how fresh you're looking this morning!' You see, I was in working at the Vernons', but I never thought as he'd noticed me.MoreLess
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