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"Oh!" said Leonore, laughing, "I shan't be a boss at all. You'll be my
boss, I think, and I'll always vote for you."
Peter thought the day even more glorious than he had before.


CHAPTER XLVI.
THE BETTER ELEMENT.

The evening after this glorious day, Peter came in from his ride, but
instead of going at once to his room, he passed down a little passage,
and stood in a doorway.
"Is everything going right, Jenifer?" he queried.
"Yissah!"
"The flowers came from Thorley's?"
"Yissah!"
"And the candies and ices from Maillard?"
"Yissah!"
"And you've _frappe_ the champagne?"
"Yissah?"
"Jenifer, don't put quite so much onion juice as usual in the Queen
Isabella dressing. Ladies don't like it as much as men."
"Yissah!"
"And you stood the Burgundy in the sun?"
"Yissah! Wha foh yo' think I doan do as I ginl'y do?"
Jenifer was combining into a stuffing bread crumbs, chopped broiled
oysters, onions, and many other mysterious ingredients, and was becoming
irritated at such evident doubt of his abilities.


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