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'Well, said True, slowly, 'it was you who put Nobbles on the ice. 'Yes, said Bobby, 'it was what I'd been longing and wanting to do, and I was always finking and finking how it could be done, and then all of a sudden it comed, and who saved father's life? Why, me and Nobbles. True was crushed.
James's Park, Emmeline said in a solemn undertone to Bert "I've bin finking. Do you know oo 'e was? 'E was 'er little boy wot she'd sent away to live wiv poor folks. 'E come back and done that."
And you won't tell without me knowing, will you, sister?" "For sure not," replied Pamela indignantly. "Us must do it togevver like always. But there's Miss Mitten coming I hear her. Wait till after she's gone, bruvver, and then I'll tell you what I've been finking." With this Duke was obliged to content himself.
Daisy lay stretched with her doll upon the tiger-skin, and presently, looking up, roused Allie from her distraction. "Why, Allie," she exclaimed, "what you finking about so much? Serena Victoria is most upside down. Just look at her!"
But these children were so unused to say anything not quite true that they hesitated, and this hesitation saved them from making another step in the wrong direction. "I wasn't finking of Nurse, Grandmamma," said Pamela at last in rather a low voice. "Nor I wasn't neither," said Duke, taking courage by her example.
"Bimeby, I heard Big Mose crawling soft-like out de bed. He was trying to make no noise, so he wouldn't wake me, finking I was asleep. He stepped like a cat on de floor, and I listened to see what he was going to do. I heerd him move around and den all was still. 'What you doing, Mose? I axed.
'And, suggested Bobby earnestly, 'you'll put down a nice short little sum for me to do, mostly twos and fours; me and Nobbles does not like the figures past six, they want such a lot of finking about. Miss Robsart laughed, but promised she would do the best she could, and lessons went very smoothly on the whole.
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