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The canoe containing Mrs Toc and the celebrated baby went direct to the landing-place at Martin's Cove, which was a mere spot of sand in a narrow creek, where landing was by no means easy even for these expert canoemen. Here the women kindled a fire and heated the culinary stones, while Toc and some of the others clambered up the cliffs to obtain gulls' eggs and cocoa-nuts.
But the mental and spiritual powers were still vigorous, so that when they all sat down in quiescence round the room, and Toc took down the family Bible from its accustomed shelf and set it before Adams, they were all, young and old, in a suitable state of mind to join in the worship of Him who had given them the capacity, as well as the opportunity, to enjoy that glorious and ever memorable day.
Couldn't you manage to add something more to it?" "Yes, father," said Thursday, with a deprecating smile, "I have come to ask to ask you for leave to to to " "Well, Toc, you have my cheerful leave to to to, and tootle too, as much as you please," replied Adams, with a bland smile. "In short," said Thursday, with a desperate air, "I I want leave to marry."
So he ran as fast as ever he could, taking the shortest road, but the little maiden took the longest; for she stopped to pluck roses in the wood, to chase butterflies, and gather nosegays of the prettiest flowers she could find she was such a happy and innocent little soul. The wolf was not long in reaching the grand-mother's door. He knocked, Toc toc, and the grandmother said, "Who is there?"
He arrived thus at the capital, and threaded his way straight up the High Street, still running and singing 'Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back? to the great astonishment of the good folks, till he came to the King's palace. He strikes with the knocker: 'Toc! toc! 'Who is there? asks the porter, putting his head out of the wicket. ''Tis I, Drakestail.
'She's charming, charming! piped Sitnikov. 'I will introduce you. Clever, rich, a widow. It's a pity, she's not yet advanced enough; she ought to see more of our Evdoksya. I drink to your health, Evdoxie! Let us clink glasses! Et toc, et toc, et tin-tin-tin! Et toc, et toc, et tin-tin-tin!!! 'Victor, you're a wretch. The lunch dragged on a long while.
"Man alive! don't you see it? The one furthest aft, with a black hole in it big enough a'most to stuff my George into." Thursday applied the pincers gently. Adams, unable to use clear speech in the circumstances, said chokingly, "'At's 'e un 'ool away!" which, interpreted, is, "That's the one pull away." Toc pulled, Adams roared, the children quaked, and the pincers slipped.
TOC rose with alacrity, displaying in the act the immense relative difference between his very long legs and his ordinary body, in regard to which Adams used to console him by saying, "Never mind, Toc, your legs'll stop growin' at last, and when they do, your body will come out like a telescope. You'll be a six-footer yet. Why, you're taller than I am already by two inches."
"Madam, are these all yours?" inquired the king. "Yes, sire, but I shall be most happy if you will condescend to taste their contents. Which wine do you prefer canary, hermitage, champagne?" and she ran over a long list, out of which his majesty made his choice. Grognon took a little hammer, and struck "toc, toc," on the cask, from which there rolled out a handful of silver money.
"Well, Charlie, what are you going to tell me?" "Isn't Toc very happy?" He blushed to the roots of his hair when he said this, and dropped his eyes again on the ground. "Of course he is," replied Sally, with a touch of surprise. "But but I mean, as " "Well, why don't you go on, Charlie?" "I mean as a a married man." "Every one sees and knows that, Charlie."
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