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Thus Dame Fripp, in addition to 'property' supposed to yield her no less than half-a-crown a-week, was in the receipt of professional fees, the gross amount of which was vaguely estimated by her neighbours as 'pouns an' pouns'. Moreover, she drove a brisk trade in lollipop with epicurean urchins, who recklessly purchased that luxury at the rate of two hundred per cent.
And when our memory's mirror true Reflects the scenes of yore, We'll think of him it brings to view, Who loved to hunt the boar. No. Her bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne? Little Mrs. Lollipop has certainly proved a source of disappointment to her lady friends.
Under such influences Ali Baba may become serious; he may learn from the wisdom of age and be cheered by the sallies of youth. But little Mrs. Lollipop can hardly be called one of the Sallies of his youth. Sally Lollipop rose upon the horizon of his middle age.
Tim threw a somerset backwards. "There, sir, all's right now. One good turn deserves another. Now I'll be off." "Where are you going to, sir?" "Going sir! Why, I left my lollipop in the tinder-box, and I'm going to fetch it." "Ha! ha! ha!" "Strike up, music!" and Master Jumbo commenced tumbling. Such was the elegant wit with which we amused and attracted the audience.
Father says I must entertain, and I hate entertaining, for it rouses one up so dreadfully; but I do think that you, as an old schoolfellow, might take a little interest in me." "Listen to me for a moment," said Hester; "I want to say something." "Oh, how appallingly solemn you are! I wish I had a lollipop to stop your mouth with." "You must listen," said Hester in a firm voice; "I'm not joking.
When Miss Snobky was so very young as to be in the nursery regions, and to walk off early mornings in St. James's Park, protected by a French governess and followed by a huge hirsute flunkey in the canary coloured livery of the Snobkys, she used occasionally in these promenades to meet with young Lord Claude Lollipop, the Marquis of Sillabub's younger son.
She never told lies, had never stolen so much as a lollipop, never showed any recalcitrancy about saying her prayers, and by her incessant obedience had filled her poor father and mother with the gravest anxiety as regards her future well-being. He feared it would be necessary to send her to a deformatory.
Lollipop will receive a post-card from the Colonel of her centurion's regiment. Lollipop, dic, per omnes Te deos oro, Robinson cur properes amando Perdere? cur apricum Oderit campum, patiens pulveris atque solis. Yrs. Sincy. Ten to one an Archdeacon will be sent for to translate this. Ten to one there is a shindy, ending in tea and tearful smiles; for she is bound to get a blowing up.
Once more we see that nutrition is largely a question of how much; how much glucose or other sugar our stomachs can stand we find out by experience; few stomachs can stand when empty the quantity represented by a lollipop, and yet we frequently see children allowed to suck these between meals. Used in this way, the advantages of sugar as a food may be had with relatively little disadvantage.
Bunce returned to his room and closed the door. Gilbert had taken Nelly on his knee, and was satisfying her by tasting the remnant of lollipop. 'I say, Jack! cried the father, his eye again catching sight of the bruised tract on the floor. 'Who brought that here? 'I did, father, answered the youngster stoutly, though he saw displeasure in his father's face.
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