It's no
affair of yours, to start with; and, in the second place, there's no
point in comparative ethnology so firmly established as the fact that
morality is quite a different thing among different peoples. What
would be wrong for you and me may be, and is, perfectly right for Miss
King and Simpkins. I needn't go into that more fully. All you have to
do is to crack up Simpkins as a first-rate sort of man that any girl
would be lucky if she married; and then let me know how they hit it off
together when they meet."
"I'll do it. I'd do more than that to oblige your reverence in the
matter of making a match for any boy about the place; for I'm not one
to spoil his chances on a boy, not if I hated him worse than I do
Simpkins."
"Very well. Now I want to speak a few words to Miss King, but it won't
do for me to wake her up. She wouldn't like it; and what's more, she
might suspect that we'd been talking together about her. I'll go back
to the house and walk over here across the lawn. I'll signal to you as
soon as I'm ready to start, and then you go over and wake Miss King."
"I wouldn't like to do it. I'd be ashamed, for fear she might think I
was taking a liberty.
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