The
black cat was her favourite.
"That cat knows more than I do, if yez'll believe it," she said
proudly. "I've got a rat too, but he's a bit shy when strangers
is round. Your cat got all right again that time, didn't he?"
"Yes," said the Story Girl.
"Thought he would," said Peg, nodding sagely. "I seen to that.
Now, don't yez all be staring at the hole in my dress."
"We weren't," was our chorus of protest.
"Looked as if yez were. I tore that yesterday but I didn't mend
it. I was brought up to believe that a hole was an accident but a
patch was a disgrace. And so your Aunt Olivia is going to be
married after all?"
This was news to us. We felt and looked dazed.
"I never heard anything of it," said the Story Girl.
"Oh, it's true enough. She's a great fool. I've no faith in
husbands. But one good thing is she ain't going to marry that
Henry Jacobs of Markdale. He wants her bad enough. Just like his
presumption,--thinking himself good enough for a King. His father
is the worst man alive. He chased me off his place with his dog
once. But I'll get even with him yet."
Peg looked very savage, and visions of burned barns floated
through our minds.
"He'll be punished in hell, you know," said Peter timidly.
"But I won't be there to see that," rejoined Peg.
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