Our Admirable Betty

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Excerpt from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance "The Major, mam, the Major has a truly wonderful 'ead!" said Sergeant Zebedee Tnng as he stood, hammer in hand, very neat and precise from broad shoe buckles to smart curled wig that offset his square, bronzed face. "Head, Sergeant, head!" retorted pretty, dimpled Mrs. Agatha, nodding at the Sergeant's broad back. "'Ead mam, yes!" said the Sergeant, busily nailing up a branch of the Major's favourite cherry tree. "The Major has a truly wonderful 'ead, regarding which I take liberty to ob-serve, as two sword cuts and a spent bullet have in nowise affected it, Mrs. Agatha, mam, which is a fact as I will maintain whenever and wherever occasion demands, as in dooty bound, mam, dooty bound." "Duty, Sergeant, duty!" "Dooty, mam - pre-cisely." Here the Sergeant turning round for another nail, Mrs. Agatha bent over the rose bush, her busy fingers cutting a bloom here and another there, and her pretty face quite hidden in the shade of her mobcap. "Indeed," she continued, after a while, "'t is no wonder you be so very - fond of him, Sergeant!" "Fond of him, mam, fond of him," said the Sergeant, turning to look at her with glowing eyes, "well - yes, I suppose so - it do be a - a matter o' dooty with me - dooty, Mrs. Agatha, mam." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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