time John’s knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only —

“Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!”

A short time after she pursued — “I seed you go out with the master, but I didn’t know you were gone to church to be wed;” and she basted away.

John, when I turned to him, was grinning from ear to ear.

“I telled Mary how it would be,” he said: “I knew what Mr. Edward” (John was an old servant, and had known his master when he was the cadet of the house, therefore, he often gave him his Christian name) — “I knew what Mr. Edward would do; and I was certain he would not wait long neither: and he’s