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Tetterby desisting, Johnny, with a profound sense of his trust, wiped his eyes, and hushed his sister. "Your brother 'Dolphus," said his father, poking the fire, "is late to-night, Johnny, and will come home like a lump of ice. What's got your precious mother?" "Here's mother, and 'Dolphus too, father!" exclaimed Johnny, "I think." "You're right!" returned his father, listening.
"'Fended!" exclaimed Clorinda, stepping upon the grass as if it had been egg-shells, that she had resolved not to crush. "When was yer Clo ebber fended wid yer, Dolphus?" "Poor fellows," said Dolf, looking back at his friends, "They see my ferlicity and are ready to burst with envy."
"Shall 'Ooo die Uncle Dolphus, 'cause 'oo've got a bad eye?" asked de Courcy Gazebee, the eldest hope of the family, looking up into his face. "No, my hero," said Crosbie, taking the boy up into his arms, "not because I've got a black eye. There isn't very much harm in that, and you'll have a great many before you leave school. But because the people will go on talking about it."
"Shortly, sir, after I make my return to England and make report. For he hopes also to visit Rome and pay homage to His Holiness, the Pope." When he heard this, Sir Dolphus urged the emissaries of England's king to tarry awhile in Gascony. "So that, kind sirs, you find our friendship for your master, such as may befit his visit to us.
'The passage is full of 'em, said Mrs Salt, much as though she were reporting that the house was on fire. 'Ay, said the widow, 'but my 'Dolphus is the guilty one I got his word for it.
Your gowns are all right, and those hats the latest thing out, began poor 'Dolphus, convicting himself by the incautious exclamation. 'Caught you that time; I thought you fellows were all gentlemen, civil as well as nice.
He sat down facing Mike Halloran across the table, and read him a lecture that should have made any boy of Mike's size thoroughly ashamed of himself; and might have gone on admonishing for an hour had not Mrs Salt knocked again at the door. 'If you please, announced Mrs Salt, 'here's the Widow Barnicutt from the Quay to see you, along with her red-headed 'Dolphus.
Played he so well with the wicked knight that it was but a few days thereafter Sir Dolphus invited him to visit with him the young damsel who was kept within prison walls. Never once did the knight demur or permit the other to think that he did not sympathize and agree with his plans. As they walked away from the prison door, he turned to the other. "Strange that she should be all alone.
They followed then their guide and so came within the great hall of state where Sir Dolphus awaited them. "Come you from England?" he asked. "That we do," replied Merlin, "and carry a message for the Duke." "There is no Duke of Gascony. He is dead. But I, by the will of all the nobles of the land, rule in place. If you have message from England's king honor is mine to receive it."
Then, the cheap enjoyments that I could have trodden on so cruelly, got to be so precious to me Oh so priceless, and dear! that I couldn't bear to think how much I had wronged them; and I said, and say again a hundred times, how could I ever behave so, 'Dolphus, how could I ever have the heart to do it!"
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