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Dossie, authour of a treatise on Agriculture; and said of him, "Sir, of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view, the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies, he knows more than almost any man." Johnson, in order to give Mr. Dossie his vote to be a member of this Society, paid up an arrear which had run on for two years.
When, with exquisite gentleness, she had inserted Baby into all his little vests and things, she put on him his knitted Baby's coat and hat, and gave him to Ranny to hold while she arrayed Dossie in her Sunday best. Then she packed them both into the wonderful pram, and wheeled them out into the Avenue, far from Ranny. For she knew that Ranny didn't want her. He wanted to be left alone to think.
The kids, Stanley, aged three, and Dossie, aged five, understanding perfectly well that they were being thrown over, began to cry. "Daddy, take me take me," sobbed Dossie. "And me!" Stanley positively screamed it. "I say, you know, if they're going to howl," said Ranny. "You must " "That's it, I mustn't. They can't have everything they choose to howl for." "There," said Winny. "See!
He had engaged an older and more expensive girl, who came from nine to six, five days a week and Saturday morning. Soon after six Winny would be free to run in and wash the Baby and put Dossie to bed. Shamelessly he accepted this service from her; for he was at his wits' end. Winny had advised it, and he had grown dependent on her judgment.
He would find excuses to go up to the storeroom, where he would pretend to be looking for things while he was really playing with Dossie. He would sit on Ranny's bed while Ranny was undressing, and together they would consider, piously, the grave case of the Humming-bird, and how, between them, they could best "keep him off it." "It's the dispensary spirits that he gets at," Mr. Ponting said.
Her spent voice dropped dead on the last word and her cough broke out again. Ransome's next movement averted it. She revived suddenly. "Ranny are you going for that cab?" He turned. "No," he said. "You know I'm not." "Then, what are you thinking of?" He was thinking: "I won't have Dossie and Stanny sleeping with her. And I can't turn Mother out. So there's no room for her. Yes, there is.
'Johnson was well acquainted with Mr. Dossie, authour of a treatise on Agriculture ; and said of him, "Sir, of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view, the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies, he knows more than almost any man." Johnson, in order to give Mr. Dossie his vote to be a member of this Society, paid up an arrear which had run on for two years.
Ransome proposed that he should sleep in the back bedroom and leave more air for Violet and the children. Violet was sullen but indifferent. "If you do," she said, "you'll take Dossie. I won't have her." He took Dossie. The Baby was safe enough for all her dislike of it, and for all it looked so sickly. For it slept. It slept astoundingly. It slept all night and most of the day.
Memoirs of Agriculture and other Oeconomical Arts, 3 vols., by Robert Dossie, London, 1768-82. See ante, ii. 14. Here Lord Macartney remarks, 'A Bramin or any cast of the Hindoos will neither admit you to be of their religion, nor be converted to yours; a thing which struck the Portuguese with the greatest astonishment, when they first discovered the East Indies. BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 250.
"Where we goin', Daddy?" "We're going down down ever so far down, with London on the top of us All the horses" Winny worked the excitement up and up "All the people All the motor buses on the top of us " "On top of me?" "And on me?" cried Dossie. "And on Daddy and on Winky?" "Will it make us dead?" said Stanley. He was thrilled at the prospect. "No. More alive than ever.
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