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It was satisfactory to know that an Earl and Countess were pledged to have Typhus if Dolly caught it. Dolly evidently thought the combination of circumstances as good as a play, and a sprightly one. Gwen was not sorry when the young ambassador came rushing back, shouting: "The Man says the Man says the Man says it wouldn't take above half a minute to do, and is the loydy a-coming up?
He did not at all like the suggestion that he had been guilty of discourtesy. "In course the lady knew, and knew correct," said Uncle Mo, drawing a distinction which is too often overlooked. "Cut along and tell us some more. What more did the lady say?" Dave concentrated his intelligence powerfully on accuracy: "The loydy said to the yuther loydy the be-yhooterful loydy...."
Burr had departed. As he was excited by the event he was yearning to narrate, he did not put it so lucidly as he might have done. He said: "Oy saw the lady, and another lady, and another lady, all in one carriage. And they see me. And the lady" he still pronounced this word loydy "she see me on the poyvement, and 'Stop' she says.
Because because because if the loydy oyn't a-coming up he has to get back to the shop." This last was so draconically delivered that Gwen exclaimed: "Come along, Dolly, we've got our orders!" And she actually carried that great child up all those stairs, and she going to be four next birthday! Upstairs, the lock-expert was apologetic.
It was easy to say who she was; the strain of attestation had turned on who she wasn't. Dave became fluent: "Whoy, the loydy what was a cistern, and took me in the roylwoy troyne and in the horse-coach to Granny Marrowbone." For he had never quite dissociated Sister Nora from ball-taps and plumbings. He added after reflection: "Only not dressed up like then!"
And then she says, 'You're Doyvy, oyn't you, that had the ax-nent? I says these was my books I took to scrool...." "Didn't you say you was Davy?" said Uncle Mo. And Aunt M'riar she actually said: "Well, I never! not to tell the lady who you was!" Dave was perplexed, looking with blue-eyed gravity from one to the other. "The loydy said I was Doyvy," said he, in a slightly injured tone.
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