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We take occathion to thay to him furthermore that before next Thurthday we thall have three timeth ath many etheth ath he thtole.
VINCENT: Forsooth, good uncle, God disposeth and timeth your matter and your dinner both, I trust. ANTHONY: Well, cousin, now will we say grace. And then for a while will we leave talking and essay how our dinner shall please us, and how fair we can fall to feeding. But you know I am not wont to sleep long in the afternoon, but even a little to forget the world.
Sleary in a very little private apartment, with canvas sides, a grass floor, and a wooden ceiling all aslant, on which the box company stamped their approbation, as if they were coming through. 'Thethilia, said Mr. Sleary, who had brandy and water at hand, 'it doth me good to thee you. You wath alwayth a favourite with uth, and you've done uth credith thinth the old timeth I'm thure.
"That doesn't sound quite right to me," said Sir Lupus, wrinkling his brows and counting on his fingers. "Is that the answer, Dorothy?" "I don't know," she murmured, eyes fixed on me. Sir Lupus glared at Dorothy, then at me. Then he stuffed his pipe full of tobacco and sat in grim silence while Benny repeated: "Theven timeth theven ith theventy-theven; theven timeth eight ith thixty-thix."
While Dorothy nodded absently and plaited the edges of her lace apron, and looked at me under lowered lashes. And Benny lisped on: "Theven timeth nine ith theventy-thix; theven " "Stop that nonsense!" burst out Sir Lupus. "Take 'em away, Cecile! Take 'em out o' my sight!"
A performance was just beginning when they arrived, and they found the culprit in the ring, disguised as a black servant. When the performance was over, Mr. Sleary came out and greeted them with great heartiness, exclaiming; "Thethilia, it doth me good to thee you. You wath always a favorite with uth, and you've done uth credit thinth the old timeth, I'm thure."
"Excuthe me," he said, and his propitiatory smile was expansive and dazzling, "excuthe me buttin' in like thith. It theemth rude, I know it doth theem rude; but the fact of the matter ith I'm a tailor thath's my pithneth, a tailor. When I thay a tailor, I really mean a breecheth-maker tha'th what I mean, a breecheth-maker. Now thethe timeth ith very hard timeth for breecheth-makerth."...
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