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What has made you so lazy ? You ought to be ashamed of yourself !" The fact was, Miss Peggy had hardly ever touched her banjo since Colonel Cameron came on board. Why, we hardly knew. We could perhaps have understood her not caring to ask us, before one who was comparatively a stranger to her, to join in any of her daft choruses; but there were plenty of the old- fashioned plantation songs that suited her voice very weD, and that have almost recovered from their vulgarization of five-and- twent...y years ago. Surely " Mary Blane " is pathetic in its sim- ple way. " The Old Folks at Home " remains a favorite. There are many more, and we knew that she knew them ; but some- how she had always seemed disinclined to open that leather case since Sir Ewen Cameron joined us. And so she was on this occasion. " It is so delightfully quiet here," she said, " it is a shame to spoil it by that strumming." " I am quite sure Colonel Cameron has never heard you sing * Nelly Gray,' " Queen Tita suggested, insidiously.
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