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Primmins, with a new umbrella purchased for the occasion, and a bird-cage containing a canary endeared to her not more by song than age and a severe pip through which she had successfully nursed it; and I myself, waited at the gates to welcome the celestial visitor.
Nor can I wholly omit mention of poor Mrs. Primmins, who still calls me "Master Sisty," and is breaking her heart that I will not wear the new flannel waistcoats she had such pleasure in making, "Young gentlemen just growing up are so apt to go off in a galloping 'sumption!
Oh, Primmins!" Primmins began to sob. "Don't tell fibs, nursey," said a small, shrill voice; and Master Sisty, coming out of the house as bold as brass, continued rapidly "don't scold Primmins, mamma: it was I who pushed out the flower-pot."
Primmins again rushes, or rather rolls in the movement natural to forms globular and spheral into my father's room with "Sir, sir, it is a boy!" Whether my father asked also this time that question so puzzling to metaphysical inquirers, "What is a boy?"
Primmins draws fresh and new from her memory as a conjurer draws pancakes hot and hot from a hat. And yet so sure is Blanche of her own innocence that they never trouble her dreams in her lone little room, full of caliginous corners and nooks, with the winds moaning round the desolate ruins, and the casements rattling hoarse in the dungeon-like wall.
Be sure," and my mother's lips approached close to Mrs. Primmins' ear, "be sure that you- -air his nightcap yourself." "Tender creatures those women," soliloquized Mr. Squills as, after clearing the room of all present save Mrs. Primmins and the nurse, he took his way towards my father's study.
Adderley rose from his half recumbent position on the grass, and shading his eyes from the afternoon sunshine, looked towards the house. "Yes, it is even so!" he replied "Primmins and a subordinate are on the way hither with various creature comforts. Music and Poetry must pause awhile. Yet why should there be a pause? It is for this that I am a follower of Omar Kayyam.
"Well I calls 'em kickshaws, but the right name is horduffs, Primmins sez, bein' a butler he should know the French, an' 'tis a French word, an' it's nothin' but little dishes 'anded round, olives an' anchovies, an' sardines an' messes of every kind, enough to make ye sick to look at 'em they swallers 'em, an' then we sends in soup two kinds, white an' clear.
Pray, where could you have had the opportunity of such private communications with Mrs. Primmins?" "Once," said my uncle, readily, "when I went into her room, while she mended my stock; and once " He stopped short, and looked down. "Once when? Out with it." "When she was warming my bed," said my uncle, in a half-whisper.
"Austin," said Uncle Jack, with emotion, "if I were a dog, with no home but a dog-kennel, and you came to me for shelter, I would turn out to give you the best of the straw!" My father was thoroughly melted this time. "Primmins will be sure to see everything is made comfortable for Mr. Tibbets," said he, waving his hand to the servant.
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