This unconscious little nurse gave me a broken hint last night , of which I have found the thread . I blush to think how easily I might have bound you and your daughter to me , and what a miserable idiot I was when I took her for one ! Friends , one and all , my house is very lonely to-night . I have not so much as a Cricket on my Hearth . I have scared them all away . Be gracious to me : let me join this happy party ! '' He was at home in five minutes . You never saw such a fellow . What had he been doing with himself all his life , never to have known before his great capacity of being jovial ? Or what had the Fairies been doing with him , to have effected such a change ? `` John ! you wo n't send me home this evening , will you ? '' whispered Dot . He had been very near it , though . There wanted but one living creature to make the party complete ; and , in the twinkling of an eye , there he was , very thirsty with hard running , and engaged in hopeless endeavours to squeeze his head into a narrow pitcher . He had gone with the cart to its journey 's end , very much disgusted with the absence of his master , and stupendously rebellious to the Deputy . After lingering about the stable for some little time , vainly attempting to incite the old horse to the mutinous act of returning on his own account , he had walked into the taproom , and laid himself down before the fire . But , suddenly yielding to the conviction that the Deputy was a humbug , and must be abandoned , he had got up again , turned tail , and come home . There was a dance in the evening . With which general mention of that recreation , I should have left it alone , if I had not some reason to suppose that it was quite an original dance , and one of a most uncommon figure .
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