Majorin having so pretty a housekeeper. But I prithee
trouble him to step to the door; I will deliver him a message from his
friends in the countryand then go back to my lodgings at the inn.
Naythe Major has been abed this hour or more said the lady of the
scarlet petticoat; and it would be to little purpose to disturb him to-night
seeing his evening draught was of the strongest. But he is a kind-hearted
manand it would be as much as my life's worth to let a kinsman of his
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turn away from the door. You are the good old gentleman's very picture
and I could swear that was his rainy-weather hat. Also he has garments
very much resembling those leather small-clothes. But come inI prayfor
I bid you hearty welcome in his name.
So sayingthe fair and hospitable dame took our hero by the hand; and
the touch was lightand the force was gentlenessand though Robin read
in her eyes what he did not hear in her wordsyet the slender-waisted
woman in the scarlet petticoat proved stronger than the athletic country
youth. She had drawn his half-willing footsteps nearly to the threshold
when the opening of a door in the neighborhood startled the Major's
housekeeperandleaving the Major's kinsmanshe vanish
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