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Berry led them into the parlour, and revealed to Richard who she was, and how she had tossed him, and hugged him, and kissed him all over, when he was only that big showing him her stumpy fat arm. "I kissed ye from head to tail, I did," said Mrs. Berry, "and you needn't be ashamed of it. It's be hoped you'll never have nothin' worse come t'ye, my dear!"
Then Dot opened her eyes very wide and looked round, and saw a funny native Bear on the tree trunk behind her. He was quite clearly to be seen in the moonlight. His thick, grey fur, that looked as if he was wrapped up to keep out the most terribly cold weather; his short, stumpy, big legs, and little sharp face with big bushy ears, could be seen as distinctly as in daylight.
I uttered an exclamation of delight as I drew forth and laid gently in my hand a short stumpy bird that must in life have been about as big as a very thick-set pigeon.
Redmond, extending his hand to Stumpy to take the treasure. Stumpy did not respond to this application for the money. On the contrary, he handed it to Leopold. "How much is there? Do you know?" repeated the fop.
Of all this large family it is Beatrice, the eldest daughter, who causes her mother the most anxiety. Beatrice is like her mother a plain but clever-looking girl, with the dark swart features and colouring of the Esterworths, who are not a handsome race. Added to which, she inherits her father's short and somewhat stumpy figure.
Two miles brought us to stumpy fields, and to the house of the upper inhabitant. They told us there was a short cut across the mountain, but my soldier shook his head. "Better twenty miles of Europe," said he, getting Tennyson a little mixed, "than one of Cathay, or Slide Mountain either." Drops of the much-needed rain began to come down, and I hesitated in front of the woodshed.
"Why don't you send John Stumpy to jail, too?" I asked. "He is as much accused as I." "We have only your word for that." "Then let me send for my sister Kate and Dick Blair." Judge Penfold rubbed his chin reflectively. "I think I'll have to put you under bonds," he said to John Stumpy. "Why so? The boy's word doesn't amount to anything," put in Mr. Woodward. "Only a matter of form, Mr. Woodward.
She was really a person prematurely born; but, as it seemed to me, already an old woman. I credited her with thirty years. A dirty hue of face; small, dull, tipsy eyes; a button-like nose; curved moist lips with drooping corners, and a short wisp of harsh hair escaping from beneath her kerchief; a long flat figure, stumpy hands and feet. I paused opposite her.
Among them Dolores appeared, suddenly, mysteriously, as coming from the skies, and after a choke of amazement Stumpy flung a hand seaward, and shouted above the turmoil of wind and rain: "Queen o' Night, thou'lt need thy magic now! See, there flies the villain!" Dolores looked, and smiled disdainfully.
In doing this the merchant's back was turned upon his companion, and for an instant Stumpy had been unable to see what the other was doing. When therefore Mr. Woodward declared the envelope to be empty every action of the tramp indicated that he did not believe the statement. "Empty?" he cried hoarsely. "Yes, empty," replied the merchant; "and you knew it," he added. "No such thing.
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