So he went down to them.
This alcove fronts the longest gravel-walk in the garden, so that they
saw me all the way I came, for a good way: and my master told me
afterwards, with pleasure, all they said of me.
Will you forgive the little vain slut, your daughter, if I tell you all,
as he was pleased to tell me? He said, 'spying me first, Look, there,
ladies, comes my pretty rustic!--They all, I saw, which dashed me, stood
at the windows, and in the door-way, looking full at me.
My master told me, that Lady Jones said, She is a charming creature, I
see that, at this distance. And Sir Simon, it seems, who has been a sad
rake in his younger days, swore he never saw so easy an air, so fine a
shape, and so graceful a presence.--The Lady Darnford said, I was a sweet
girl. And Mrs. Peters said very handsome things. Even the parson said,
I should be the pride of the county. O, dear sirs! all this was owing to
the light my good master's favour placed me in, which made me shine out
in their eyes beyond my deserts. He said the young ladies blushed, and
envied me.
When I came near, he saw me in a little confusion, and was so kind as to
meet me: Give me your hand, said he, my poor girl; you walk too fast,
(for, indeed, I wanted to be out of their gazing).
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