If he should have the inexpressible honor and delightful joy of aiding me
in any way, if so to command him to do it or words to that effect. I can't
put down his second-hand smiles and genteel looks and don't want to if I
could.

But tacklin' hard jobs as I always tackle 'em, I sot down calm in front
of him with my umbrell on my lap and told him all of Serepta's errents,
and how I had brought 'em from Jonesville on my tower. I told over all her
sufferin's and wrongs from the Rings and from not havin' her rights, and
all her sister's Azuba Clapsaddle's, and her Aunt Cassandra Keeler's, and
Hulda and Drusilly's and Abagail Flanderses injustices and sufferin's. I
did her errents as honorable as I'd love to have one done for me, I told
him all the petickulars, and as I finished I said firmly:

"Now can you do Serepta Pesterses errents and will you?"

He leaned forward with that disagreeable boughten smile of hisen and took
up one corner of my mantilly, it wuz cut tab fashion, and he took up the
tab and said in a low insinuatin' voice, lookin' clost at the edge of the
tab:

"Am I mistaken, or is this beautiful creation pipein' or can it be
Kensington tattin'?"

I drawed the tab back coldly and never dained a reply; agin he sez, in
a tone of amiable anxiety, "Have I not heard a rumor that bangs are
going out of style? I see you do not wear your lovely hair bang-like or
a-pompadouris? Ah, women are lovely creatures, lovely beings, every one of
'em." And he sithed, "You are very beautiful," and he sithed agin, a sort
of a deceitful lovesick sithe. I sot demute as the Spinks, and a chippin'