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`` He 's teaching us to rake , ma'am , '' said Miss Dick , revolving her green-gage eyes in my direction , `` and really , ma'am , it 's wonderful to see how good he does it . You Americans are so awful clever ! '' As for the one with the blue trimmings , she said nothing , but stood with her hands folded on her rake , and her chiselled features steeped in a meek resignedness , though much too high colored , as though it had just been borne in upon her that this world is all a fleeting show , for man 's illusion given , and such felicity as culling fragrant hay by the side of that manly form must e ` en be foregone by her , that I could have taken a handle of a rake and given her such a punch among her blue ribbons that her classic features would have frantically twined themselves around one resounding howl -- but I did n't . I simply remarked to Jone , with a statuesque rigidity , that it was six o'clock and I was going home ; to which he said he was going too , and we went . -LSB- Illustration : `` THERE , WITH THE BAR LADY AND THE MARIE ANTOINETTE CHAMBERMAID , WAS JONE '' -RSB- `` I thought , '' said I , as we proceeded with rapid steps across the field , `` that you did n't come to England for the purpose of teaching the inhabitants . '' Jone laughed a little . `` That young lady put it rather strong , '' he said .