1 Topsy, this is your new mistress.
2 "Yes, ma'am," says Topsy, with another sigh.
3 "Yes, ma'am," said Topsy, with profound attention.
4 Now, Topsy, I'm going to show you just how my bed is to be made.
5 "You're going to be good, Topsy, you understand," said St. Clare.
6 "Yes, ma'am," says Topsy, with a deep sigh, and a face of woful earnestness.
7 Topsy now confessed to the gloves, but still persisted in denying the ribbon.
8 "O yes, Mas'r," said Topsy, with another twinkle, her hands still devoutly folded.
9 Topsy, with loud protestations, and tears, and groans, declared that she could not.
10 "Yes, Mas'r," said Topsy, with sanctimonious gravity, her wicked eyes twinkling as she spoke.
11 Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
12 "Now, Topsy, let's see you do this," said Miss Ophelia, pulling off the clothes, and seating herself.
13 "Laws, Missis, if you's to whip all day, couldn't say no other way," said Topsy, beginning to blubber.
14 Miss Ophelia began with Topsy by taking her into her chamber, the first morning, and solemnly commencing a course of instruction in the art and mystery of bed-making.
15 The ribbon was pulled out of Topsy's own sleeve, yet was she not in the least disconcerted; she only looked at it with an air of the most surprised and unconscious innocence.
16 Behold, then, Topsy, washed and shorn of all the little braided tails wherein her heart had delighted, arrayed in a clean gown, with well-starched apron, standing reverently before Miss Ophelia, with an expression of solemnity well befitting a funeral.
17 Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia's satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified.
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