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Excusable! Why, what the dooce do you mean, sir? You're taking the other side now!" "This is not the language of penitence, Bultitude," said poor Mr. Blinkhorn, disheartened and bewildered. "Remember, you have put off the Old Man now!" "I'm not likely to forget that," said Paul; "I only wish I could see my way to putting him on again!" "You want to be your old self again?" gasped Mr. Blinkhorn.
We're very uneasy about him here, which prepared me for something out of the common. Well, I went into a sort of inner room, and there he was, in his shirt-sleeves, busy over some abomination he was cooking at the stove, with the office-boy helping him! I never was so taken aback in my life. I said something about calling another time, but Bultitude " Paul groaned. The blow had fallen.
"One moment, ma'am, if you please," cried Mr. Bultitude, panting and desperate. "I'm pressed for time." "Now you've gone and put me out, little boy," said the old lady fussily. "I shall have to begin all over again. Young man, will you take and count the other end and see if it adds up right? There's a halfpenny wrong somewhere; I know there is." "Now then," shouted the guard from the platform.
Bultitude, and, of course, for the rest of the Christian world as well. Whether that week would be better or worse than the one which had just passed away he naturally could not tell it could hardly be much worse.
And with this parting shot she was gone. Mr. Bultitude wandered disconsolately about the upper part of the house after this, not daring to go down, and not able to remain in any one place. The maids who came up to make the beds looked at him with pitiful interest, but he was too proud to implore help from them.
"I want you outside, Bultitude," he said; and Paul, still uncertain whether the scene of his disgrace was only about to be shifted, or what else this might mean, followed him into the hall. "If anything can strike shame and confusion into your soul, Richard," said the Doctor, when they were outside, "it will be what I have to tell you now. Your unhappy father is here, in the dining-room."
Bultitude's state of mind. It was as much as he could do to crawl up the steps to the front door, and his knees positively clapped together when the Doctor, who had driven home, met them in the hall and said in a still grave voice, "Bultitude, when you have taken off your coat, I want you in the study."
"I don't know what you mean now, but I can say with truth that I too have had my experiences my trials. Months ago, from certain signs, I noticed, I foresaw that this was coming upon you." "Then," said Mr. Bultitude, "I think, in common decency, you might have warned me. A post-card would have done it. I should have been better prepared to meet this, then!"
Mr. Bultitude found a key which was labelled "playbox," and began to open a box which bore Dick's initials cut upon the lid; without any apprehensions, however, for he had given too strict orders to his daughter, to fear that any luxuries would be concealed there. But no sooner had he raised the lid than he staggered back with disgust.
Listen to reason. You are here for your good. Youth, it has been beautifully said, is the springtime of life. Though you may not believe it, you will never be happier than you are now. Our schooldays are " But Mr. Bultitude could not tamely be mocked with the very platitudes that had brought him all his misery he cut the master short in a violent passion.
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