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Fergus, a little afraid of being actually suffocated, began to struggle, setting off Wilfred, and the adventure was having a conclusion, which would have accounted for the authentic existence of Perkin Warbeck, when oh horror! there was a peal at the door-bell, and before there was a moment for the general scurry, Herbert the button-boy popped out of the pantry passage and admitted Mr.
He was taken charge of by a button-boy, whose head reached the major's lowest waistcoat button, was deprived of his hat and stick, and practically commanded to wash his hands, to all of which he submitted under stolid and silent protest.
'Aha! little button-boy, I've got it at last, and I shall take it home and have it sewed on my jacket. 'I shall fight you, cried Teddy, 'if you don't give it up at once! It isn't yours. You would be a thief if you kept it. Give it to me this minute! 'Shall I throw it into the river? questioned the saucy little maiden. Teddy darted forward, and then began a tussle.
Was it any wonder that with such a gift for story-telling Teddy was the king of the village? It came to an end at last, and Nancy drew a long breath of relief and content when she heard the concluding sentence, 'And I quickly opened the little door, and there I was outside the oak, and safe in the wood again. 'Button-boy, I do like you, she asserted, with a quick little nod of her head.
She came up to the big chair very shyly, and looked with awe upon Teddy's white, wasted face; then she cried impulsively, 'Oh, button-boy, will you ever, ever forgive me? If you had died, I should have killed you! 'No, you wouldn't, said Teddy, putting up his face and kissing her. 'I was just as naughty; I shouldn't have tried to fight with you.
She was quite as delighted as he was, but said, a few minutes after, 'Button-boy, do you remember telling me you couldn't live without your-button? You said you'd pine away and die. 'Yes, I thought I should; but as soon as I began to pray about it I knew it was coming back, and so I got better.
Old Sol's words were fierce, but the boys knew he had the softest heart in the village, and they stood their ground. 'It's all the button-boy, said Nancy eagerly, as she descended from her perch, and laid her little hand confidingly on the old man's arm. 'He brought these boys up to fight me, but I was up the mast, and they couldn't shake me off!
'They're only boys, grandfather; let us come in to mother, and leave them. They're the rudest boys I've ever seen, and the button-boy is the worst, and his button isn't worth a farthing! There was a yell from all three boys at this. 'That's it! cried Carrots excitedly. 'It's the button she's so cheeky about. We ain't going to have Teddy's button laughed at. We won't stand it, Sol we won't!
My mind begins to grow more easy. I am even sensible of a little feeling of funny elation at the sound of the fiddles gayly squeaking. I can look about me and laugh inwardly at the distant sight of Tou Tou and the button-boy turning each other nimbly round; of father, in the fourth figure, blandly backing between Mrs. Mitchell and a cook-maid. We have now reached the fifth.
"They are better than ours at the church." "Do you think so, my lady?" A pause. Everybody is choosing partners. Tou Tou, grinning from ear to ear, is bidding a bashful button-boy to the merry dance. Father do my eyes deceive me? father himself is leading out the housekeeper. Evidently he is saying something dignifiedly humorous to her, for she is laughing.
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