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She was still standing there when, some time later, the door to the dining-room behind her opened and a tiny elderly man trotted across the hall to the stairs. Lydia recognized him before he saw that she was there, so that he exclaimed in surprise and pleasure as she came running toward him, her face quivering like a child's about to weep.
They grew more alert, though, when she, having finished her story of the letter, said gravely, "Girls, we've all got to do something, and I'll tell you what we've got to do." "What?" they demanded in one breath. "Well, we've got to save Cousin Charlotte all we can, and not cost a penny more than we can help." "Must I only eat a very little teeny tiny bit?" asked Poppy gravely. Esther laughed.
Her big chair almost swallowed her tiny figure, the sardonic expression had entirely left her face, which appeared at once noble and loving. Maria gazed at her as she sat so, with an odd, inverted admiration. It seemed extraordinary to her she should actually admire any one like this deformed little creature, but admire her she did.
'I'll give you a ship', said the woman, 'which can sail over fresh water and salt water, and over high hills and deep dales. 'Well! out with it', said Shortshanks. So the old woman gave him a little tiny ship, no bigger than he could put in his pocket, and she got her eye back again, and they each went their way.
He wondered if he should open the door or slip out of the window and leave. "Hey, Tom!" the voice called. "This is Tiny! Come on, lemme in." "Tiny!" shouted Tom in swift relief. He opened the door and a small boy of about twelve stepped inside. "Hiya, Tom," greeted the boy enthusiastically. Tom grinned his welcome.
Had she moved slowly I might not have seen her, so closely did her soft gray cloak blend with the weather-beaten wood and the moss. In a few moments she reappeared, waited a moment with her tiny head just peeking out of the knot-hole, flashed round the post out of sight, and when I saw her again it was as she reappeared suddenly beside the male. Then I watched him.
Eventually, however, Glory gave over trying to stand upon his head and his hind feet at one and the same instant, and permitted himself to be guided toward a certain tiny, low-eaved cabin in a meadow just over the hill from the town. Weary was not by nature given to burglary, but he wrenched open the door of the cabin and went in with not a whisper of conscience to say him nay.
The servant returned to us, bringing with him a tiny bottle of champagne and a plateful of delicate little sugared biscuits. "I have had this wine bottled expressly for the ladies," said the Major. "The biscuits came to me direct from Paris. As a favor to me, you must take some refreshment. And then " He stopped and looked at me very attentively.
Then came an old, old man bending on his staff, and he spoke out sharply, as if he were half starved, and all he said was, "Bread!" and with that he held out his hand as if all he had to do was to ask, in order to get what he wanted. For a moment Tiny made him no answer, and some persons who had heard the demand, and saw that Tiny gave him nothing, began to laugh.
The splendid wonder of it! She found that the boy had built a house all by himself he had built it with real boards, and had furnished it with tiny chairs and tables made from boxes. Complete it was, even to a beautiful strip of carpet on the floor and a shelf on which to put the dishes.
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