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Whenever at supper the tongues grew too loosened, and wild talk, and of the wickedese, began to jingle among the bottles and glasses, he would bid me Withdraw, and go keep company for a time with Mistress Slyboots.
Then she was aware of Aileen shaking at her an arch forefinger, and saying: "Why, Til, you naughty girl! Ain't you getting to be awful, Miss Slyboots! First thing I know you'll be stealing some of my fellows. I must keep an eye on you, my lady." Another thing dawned upon Tildy's recovering wits. In a moment she had advanced from a hopeless, lowly admirer to be an Eve-sister of the potent Aileen.
"Come, my little lamb, good-night and sleep well," said my aunt, with her smile that seemed to issue from her nose. She added in a whisper: "You love him, don't you? The slyboots! she won't answer! Well, since you love him so much, don't tell him so, my dear. But I must leave you; you are sleepy. Goodnight." And she went away, smiling. At length I was alone.
Mole stared again. "I don't quite understand what you are driving at, Mr, Harvey," said he. "Don't you, though? well, I do, old Slyboots." "Harvey!" "Oh, don't you try to come the old soldier over me." "Sir!" said Mr. Mole, rearing himself up to his full height upon his timbers, "I don't understand your slangy allusions to the ancient military." "Why, it is clear enough that you brought her."
Indeed, Master Miles was down below, for special reasons accompanying his mother on her visits to Aunt Bernstein sometimes; and our aunt desired the mother's company so much, that she was actually fain to put up with the child. "So you have got the child here? Oh, you slyboots!" says the Countess. "Guess you come after the old lady's money! Law bless you! Don't look so frightened.
Slyboots, indeed, thought that he must be connected with the peerage some way; his mother, perhaps, had been the daughter of a peer, and she gave herself an infinity of trouble in hunting through the 'matches' with what success it is not necessary to say.
"Whereupon I wrote a line to my dear boy, the Honourable William Guppy, informing him of the appointment for to-night and advising him not to call before, Boguey being a slyboots." The light vivacious tone of fashionable life which is usually assumed by Mr.
"Two days after your departure for it was you, slyboots, who got the affair away from my proprietor some men came here and rid me of that arrogant old fool and all his belongings. Bless me! if they didn't move everything out within twenty-four hours; and as close as wax they were too; not a word would they say to me.
My lord burst out, with a laugh and an oath "You young slyboots, you've been at Nancy Sievewright. D the young hypocrite, who'd have thought it in him? I say, Tusher, he's been after " "Enough, my lord," said my lady, "don't insult me with this talk." "Upon my word," said poor Harry, ready to cry with shame and mortification, "the honor of that young person is perfectly unstained for me."
And then he jumped over the Luckymobile and ran off to his den to give it to Slyboots or Bushy Tail, his two little sons, you know, but which one got it I can't remember, for everybody was so excited that they forgot to ask the naughty old fox before he got away.
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