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He had a way of turning every question off with another question, and it was soon discovered that no information could be obtained from him. Still it was passed from lip to lip that the great and nighty king had been found by the rescuers, stripped to his underclothes, and tied to a stake, while the smoke arose thickly around him and nearly choked him.
"But," Monsieur looked at him reprovingly, "Aphrodite is not goddess of the wind!" "Who said she was?" he innocently asked. "You conjure her for the gale bah!" "That's because she rhymes with nighty, gezabo! When my Muse sings, to hell with mythology! Come join the clouds you're sordid!" "These have been sordid clouds," the little fellow laughed.
And when we located it, after a good hour of askin' questions, and payin' car fares and wearin' out shoe leather, 'twas a Chinese laundry. "'Well, I says, sarcastic, 'here we be. Which one of the heathen do you think is Jimmie? If he had an inch or so more of upper lip, I'd gamble on that critter with the pink nighty and the baskets on his feet.
I suppose she was shyer of burglars than any woman ever was that had never seen a sign of them. She was always calling me up, to go down-stairs and put them out, and I used to wander all over the house, from attic to cellar, in my nighty, with a lamp in one hand and a poker in the other, so that no burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark. I always kept a lamp and a poker handy."
Through that window they had all three sallied times without number to cricket on the lawn, and a mysterious game called 'Wopsy-doozle, not to be understood by outsiders, which made old Jolyon very hot. Here once on a warm night Holly had appeared in her 'nighty, having had a bad dream, to have the clutch of it released.
"But I sat in the tree so often in my nighty, and Kitty-dear built steps so I could go up and down " He paused, and bravely brushed away another big tear, with a motion that indicated dislike for feeble symbols. "Well hurry," said Cleo, seizing the chance of escape. "Good-bye little Royal-Boy-Blue-Peter Pan," she said merrily. "And good-bye, Kitty.
"Yes," murmured Marjorie; "Underground Railway to Crystal Palace; that's how we went last time, you know part of the way, at any rate let's go to sleep now. Good-night, Dick." "Good-night." "Nighty, nighty!" shouted Fidge. "Good-night, Fidge, dear," was his sister's reply, in a very tired voice.
When Archibald, like the little imp he was, sets up a whoop and dives for them two, the priest grabs him by the rope of the blanket nighty and swings him into the libr'ry, and shuts the door on him. "'And now, says he, takin' Sim and me by the arms and leadin' us to the parlor, 'we'll just step in here and wait a bit. "We waited, maybe, ten minutes.
It was, no doubt, a ridiculous thing to sit and cuddle a contrary war-baby when your best young man was making his farewell call, but there was nothing else to be done. Jims was supremely happy. He kicked his little pink-soled feet rapturously out under his white nighty and gave one of his rare laughs.
I got to thinking of accidents, and I thought how disagreeable it would be to turn out into the snow in my nighty. I ended by turning in with my clothes on, all except my coat; and, in spite of the red-hot stoves, I wasn't any too warm. I had a berth in the middle of the car, and just as I was parting my curtains to lie down, old Melford came to take the lower berth opposite.
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