Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . anded floor, a line clock, and a gener-ous fire, where something savory seemedalways simmering; and beyond this wasthe dairy, with its shining pans, andlong windows made gay by geraniumsall winter long. But the most attract-ive object in the house svas the dairy wo-mans daugliter, whom I thought then,and think now, the most blooming crea- or the drama. Dollys hands were redenough, no doubt, and I must say her ex-pression was the most hopelessly stupid;but for mere flesh and blood beauty thegirl w^as incomparable, and seemed no
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . anded floor, a line clock, and a gener-ous fire, where something savory seemedalways simmering; and beyond this wasthe dairy, with its shining pans, andlong windows made gay by geraniumsall winter long. But the most attract-ive object in the house svas the dairy wo-mans daugliter, whom I thought then,and think now, the most blooming crea- or the drama. Dollys hands were redenough, no doubt, and I must say her ex-pression was the most hopelessly stupid;but for mere flesh and blood beauty thegirl w^as incomparable, and seemed not tohave the least particle of consciousness tobe stirred to vanity by the adnuring looksI often saw cast upon her—market-daysand the like, when the Corydons and Phyl-lises of the country-side flocked into thetown. At the fair, Dolly did quitean active trade without so muchas once trying to coquet above herwares. In the course of time Ilearned that she was engaged to ayoung workman in Torquay, him-self of the very calm and bovineorder of looks and manners, and,. MR. B- AS A WAITER. ture I have ever seen. She was a com-plete type of her class—rarely, I think, tobe met with out of Devonshire, even inEngland—and presented herself that firstmorning to my gaze as a dazzlingly pinkand white, blue-eyed, and brown-hairedcreature in a blue cotton gown, the sleevesof which were rolled up so as to show theround wiiite arms, which one fancies onlyappropriate in the dairy-maid of poetry as the mother told me, they were to bemarried as soon as he earned twenty-fiveshillings a week, with which they couldset up housekeeping in a four-roomed cot-tage, and hope for certain. material com-forts of life. The green-grocers w^as a roomy shop,ahvays deiiciously fragrant, redolent ofherbs and some spices, and presided overby a good-humored man and his wife, 174 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. who had a very distinct love of their call-ing, Mrs. B cultivating certain vege-tables in her strip of gard
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