"There is
my packing-up to be thought of now," he said. "I can't go away without
my warm things."
"Excuse me, sir," rejoined Mrs. Lecount, "there is the Will to be signed
first; and there must be two persons found to witness your signature."
She looked out of the front window, and saw the carriage waiting at the
door. "The coachman will do for one of the witnesses," she said. "He is
in respectable service at Dumfries, and he can be found if he happens
to be wanted. We must have one of your own servants, I suppose, for the
other witness. They are all de testable women; but the cook is the least
ill-looking of the three. Send for the cook, sir; while I go out and
call the coachman. When we have got our witnesses here, you have only to
speak to them in these words: 'I have a document here to sign, and I
wish you to write your names on it, as witnesses of my signature.'
Nothing more, Mr. Noel! Say those few words in your usual manner--and,
when the signing is over, I will see myself to your packing-up, and your
warm things."
She went to the front door, and summoned the coachman to the parlor.
On her return, she found the cook already in the room.
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