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He was the darling of fond and indulgent parents and his nursery was crowded with hideous rag and sawdust dolls, golliwogs, comic penguins, comic lions, comic elephants and comic policemen and every variety of suchlike humorous idiocy and visual beastliness. This figure, solid, delicate and gracious, was a thing of a different order.
Not that I'd be surprised to see 'em one after another creep out o' the chimney-pot black as black!" Euphemia, with her head in the air, walked off muttering. However, as the morning wore on and a wondrous quiet reigned at the top of the house, where the boys were engaged in painting fearsome animals and golliwogs on the jambs of the mantelpiece, Euphemia relented.
"I don't see what right you have to say that," she flared. "I don't see what right you have to say you can't marry me and try to load me up with golliwogs," he retorted with equal heat. "Oh, can't you understand?" "No, I'm dashed if I can." She looked at him despondently. "When I said I would marry you, you were a hero to me. You stood to me for everything that was noble and brave and wonderful.
Blithely they stepped along, and prepared to enter the palace with a flourish of trumpets, as it were, when King's music stopped suddenly. "Great Golliwogs!" he cried. "Look at that!" "Look at what?" said Tom, who was absorbed in the grand march. But he looked, and they all looked, and five angry exclamations sounded as they saw only the ruins of the beloved Sandringham Palace.
A reek of beer floats from the public-house, and a loud clatter and rattle of voices. The wind has dropped, and the sun burns more fiercely than ever. Outside the two swing-doors there is a thick mass of children like flies at the mouth of a sweet-jar. And up, up the hill come the people, with ticklers and golliwogs, and roses and feathers.
"I don't see what right you have to say that," she flared. "I don't see what right you have to say you can't marry me and try to load me up with golliwogs," he retorted with equal heat. "Oh, can't you understand?" "No, I'm dashed if I can." She looked at him despondently. "When I said I would marry you, you were a hero to me. You stood to me for everything that was noble and brave and wonderful.
Far away in the long, long distance were piled the toys that yesterday's birthday had given him. They did not, as yet, mean anything to him at all. One day, perhaps when he had torn the dolls limb from limb, twisted the railways until they stood end upon end in sheer horror, disembowelled the bears and golliwogs so that they screamed again, he might have some personal feeling for them.
He returned at intervals during the afternoon. Over the second Teddy-bear they became friendly, over the third intimate. He proposed as she was wrapping up the fourth golliwog, and she gave him her heart and the parcel simultaneously. At six o'clock, carrying four Teddy-bears, seven photograph frames, five golliwogs, and a billiken, Clarence went home to tell the news to his parents.
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