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That would suit you, would it not?" And he bowed in Alkid's direction. "Zeth a drum," lisped the boy, hanging his head. "Good! Then a drum it shall be SUCH a beautiful drum! What a tur-r-r-ru-ing and a tra-ta-ta-ta-ing you will be able to kick up! Farewell, my darling."
"Oh, I guess they'll turn up some time," said Bert hopefully. "They can't be lost so very, very bad," lisped Flossie. "'Cause they are somewhere on this farm, ain't they?" "Yes, but the farm is so very big!" sighed poor Nan. For a few days Freddie went up to the garden every morning to look for radishes.
Rolfe; he was staying in the house for three days, upon a condition suggested by himself viz., that he might enjoy his friends' society in peace and comfort, and not be set to roll the stone of conversation up some young lady's back, and obtain monosyllables in reply, faintly lisped amid a clatter of fourteen knives and forks.
Yesterday at this hour I was a highly respectable if slightly pampered person with a shrewd sense of my own importance in the economic and social scheme; to-day I'm a mere biped an instinct on legs, with nothing to recommend me but an amiable disposition and an abnormal appetite. "You've made progress," he laughed lazily. "Yesterday you lisped knowingly of devil-wagons. You weren't even a biped.
What my right name was has now slipped my memory. I was indeed a wretched child, and know little of myself." "Was it Munday?" inquires the old man. Scarce has he lisped the name before she catches it up and repeats it, incoherently, "Munday! Monday! Munday!" her eyes flash with anxiety. "Ah, I remember now. I was called Anna Munday by Mother Bridges.
Taking Salvator's hand he lisped in a low voice, "My dear Signor Salvator, you possess an unlimited influence over good Antonio; beseech him in my name to permit me to spend the short rest of my days with him, and my dear daughter Marianna, and to accept at my hands the inheritance left her by her mother, as well as the good dowry which I was thinking of adding to it.
And that he was in this happy frame of mind he evidenced in divers way; he simpered most charmingly; he half closed his little eyes; he assiduously stroked his chin and moustache; and lisped time after time, "Splendid! delicious!" but they did not know to which he was referring, the picture or the wine.
"Looky," he cried. "Pretty " To his astonishment and joy, Little Mystery put out a hand and placed the tip of her tiny forefinger on the girl's face. Then she looked up into Pelliter's eyes. "Mama," she lisped. Pelliter tried to speak, but something rose like a knot in his throat and choked him. A fire leaped all at once through his body; the joy of that one word blinded him with hot tears.
"Tirteen," lisped little Reuben "Marten tirteen April Oh, Marten very old mamma very, very wise;" and Reuben opened his eyes quite wide and looked so very earnestly in his mother's face, that one would have thought he was trying to read therein what she could mean about being anxious as to leaving Marten, the Marten who appeared so very old and so very wise to him, to take care of himself for a few days without his parents protection.
"Is it for the kettle, ma'am?" said Cudmore, with a voice that startled the whole room, disconcerting three whist parties, and so absorbing the attention of the people at loo, that the pool disappeared without any one being able to account for the circumstance. "Is it for the kettle, ma'am?" "If you will be so very kind," lisped the hostess.
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