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He has made acquaintance with some of the officers here, and seems pleased at the compliments they pay me. "They have nice manners, and white uniforms that fit them like a kid glove. Ah! who knows how strange men are! Never think of being happy unless you can always be blind. I see you all at home Mother Dumpling and all as I thought I should when I was to come to Venice.
Why, you hardly think it perhaps, but not more'n four or five years ago, there was some folks who had come on a kind of an excursion, taking their lunches up there by Fort Dumpling, and some soldiers was firing at a long-range target over there to Fort Adams, and one of the balls came over and hit a young lady."
Out of the whole ninety-five there were eight in particular Dumpling, Fancy, Lofty, Mist, Old Pretty, Young Pretty, Tidy, and Loud who, though the teats of one or two were as hard as carrots, gave down to her with a readiness that made her work on them a mere touch of the fingers.
"If you lose your temper " Howat commenced, but Mariana impatiently interrupted him. "Why shouldn't Jim lose his temper?" she demanded. "I would. Personally, I'd be glad if he did, although it mightn't be fortunate for Kingsfrere. He's a good deal of a dumpling. But I will be furious if you look guilty.
Look you, my worthy, I tell you this between ourselves I may be wrong but, by , I am sure as that I am now living, that Sir A attempted to poison me last night. So much for old friendship on both sides. When I won the last stake, a heavy one enough, my friend leant his forehead upon his hands, and you'll laugh when I tell you that his head literally smoked like a hot dumpling.
Longears, "he'll be stuck fast by his furry hair and he can't get me. I hope he sticks!" And that is just what happened. The bear enjoyed eating the apple dumpling so much that he leaned back harder and harder against the sticky tree. His fur stuck fast in the gum that ran out. Finally the bear ate the last crumb of the dumpling.
"A priori," he said, "one would think a question of nutrition could be answered by dietary and a question of assimilation by drugs." It was stifling. It was dumpling talk. It made me feel swelled to hear him. One stands that sort of thing once in a way at a club, but a time came when I fancied I was standing too much. He took to me altogether too conspicuously.
I am innocent of any wrong intent, and I know that I shall be upheld, now, as in every other trouble that has come to me, and in the end, find justification." There was no one visible when she reached the house, but Mrs. Owen, who sat with her dumpling of a baby, on the door-steps. "La!" she ejaculated, as Clemence came in sight, walking wearily enough, "what's the matter be you sick?"
I overheard a visitor telling my mother of some young lady, whose figure they had been admiring, that she was nothing at all without her corsets a complete dumpling; and then followed a long digression on the impropriety of imposing upon the public in this manner; but for that I did not care I determined to impose upon them too, as soon as I got a chance.
My pain at this discovery was not lessened next day when my Welsh landlady brought up a nurse whom I had asked her to engage for me. The woman was a human dumpling with a discordant voice, and her first interest, like that of the doctor, seemed to centre in her fee. Mrs. Wagstaffe, for instance, she never has no more than five days, and on the sixth she's back at her mangle.
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