The ladies from town must not think that they have to show me
how to cook a good dinner. I'll show them. Go away and make room here
for me. Make room, Cornelli! I have to fix the vegetables."
Cornelli ran to the pantry.
Mina was just building up a splendid pile of cookies and almond rings.
"Don't come rushing in like that, or it will all tumble down," she
objected. "Don't come so near to the table; this plate is all ready
and nothing must be missing from it. I won't have it said that one can
see there is no mistress in this house, and that nobody here knows how
to set a table."
"If you are all so stingy to-day, I won't bother you any more," said
Cornelli, and with these words she turned around and marched indignantly
out of the house.
That moment, hearing the sound of approaching wheels, and looking down
the road through the open place in front of the house, she spied the
expected carriage with two ladies sitting in it.
"Matthew, Matthew," she called out, in the direction of the large
stable and the barn.
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