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You couldn't have told it from my manner, but I was feeling more than a bit nonplussed. The spectacle before me was enough to nonplus anyone. I mean to say, this Fink-Nottle, as I remembered him, was the sort of shy, shrinking goop who might have been expected to shake like an aspen if invited to so much as a social Saturday afternoon at the vicarage.
He closed the door carefully behind him. "How's the little critter doing?" he asked. "Still absorbing the goop," Trigger said. She held Mantelish's small mystery plasmoid cupped lightly between thumbs and fingers, its bottom side down in a shallow bowl half full of something which Mantelish considered to be nutritive for plasmoids, or at least for this one.
"T' goop ha' got un," cried old Robin, indignant at this outrage by a stranger to his caves, "God niver mahd mon to pree intil 's ain warks." Old Joe and Bob grunted approbation, and Mordacks himself was beginning to believe that some dark whirlpool or coil of tangles had drowned the poor diver, when a very gentle noise, like a dabchick playing beneath a bridge, came from the darkest corner.
If you wasn't a good girl would I be caring?" "I'm a good girl, I am!" "It's your health, Sara, I'm kicking about. You're getting as pale and skinny as a goop; and for a month already you've been coughing, and never a single evening home to stick your feet in hot water and a mustard plaster on your chest." "Didn't I take the iron tonic and spoil my teeth?"
I may be an ass, sir, I may even be a goop, but come between me an' my child an' all my motherly instincts if you'll pardon the paradox all my paternal that's the word instincts are aroused, and I will fight like a tiger, sir " "What a devil you are for jaw," said Hamilton; "anyway, I've warned you. Sanders is due in a month." "Henry will be five," murmured Bones. "Oh, blow Henry!" said Hamilton.
"There's an ass," said Hamilton, ticking off one finger; "and there's a silly ass," he ticked off the second; "and there's a silly ass who is such a silly ass that he doesn't know what a silly ass he is: we call him a goop." "Thank you, sir," said Bones, without resentment, "and which is the goop, you or ?"
"If I let a chap off, I'm kicked, an' if I punish him I'm kicked it's enough to make a feller give up bein' judicial " "Bones, you're a goop," said Hamilton, in despair. "A goop, sir? if you'd be kind enough to explain ?"
Nyoda listened with interest as Migwan, with a solemn expression and impressive voice, recited the tragic tale of the "Goop Who Wouldn't Wash": "Where did you get that poem?" asked Nyoda. "I wrote it myself," answered Migwan. "Good work!" said Nyoda; "will you give me a copy?"
Merle drew near to scan the device. He was able to divine that the intention of the artist had not been one of portraiture. "That ain't either his picture," he said, heatedly. "That's a cupid!" "Ho, gee, gosh! Ain't cupids got legs? Where's its legs?" "Then it's an angel." "Angels are longer. I know now it's a goop. And here's some more reading."
If you wasn't a good girl would I be caring?" "I'm a good girl, I am!" "It's your health, Sara, I'm kicking about. You're getting as pale and skinny as a goop; and for a month already you've been coughing, and never a single evening home to stick your feet in hot water and a mustard plaster on your chest." "Didn't I take the iron tonic and spoil my teeth?"
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