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He's like the fellow old Browning tells about who has 'august anticipations, of a dim splendour ever on before, and when you fellows quit calling him 'Hon. it makes him blue." And old Charley would grow purple with a big, wheezy, asthmatic laugh, and shake his great six-foot hulk and toddle out leaving us vanquished.
Tryan, and even to listen to his praises, which she usually met with playful incredulity. 'Ah, well, she answered one day, 'I like dear old Mr. Crewe and his pipes a great deal better than your Mr. Tryan and his Gospel. When I was a little toddle, Mr. and Mrs. Crewe used to let me play about in their garden, and have a swing between the great elm-trees, because mother had no garden.
It was only by a powerful and sudden exertion that I prevented myself from going over her, and as I wheeled across the road my machine came within two feet of her. She lay there yelling in the dust. I dismounted, and, picking her up I carried her to the other side of the road. There I left her to toddle homeward while I went on my way. I could not but sigh as I thought that I was again in Cathay.
I love her more than anything else on earth, we have been inseparable since the day she was old enough to toddle alone and yet she would have me leave her! No power on earth can reveal the secret that is torturing her. No power can make Strang divulge it." "And Obadiah Price!" cried Nathaniel, sudden excitement flashing in his eyes. "Does he not know?"
Imagination's a splendid thing for a detective to possess, Dollops, but don't let yours run away with you in this fashion, my lad, or you'll never rise above what you are. Toddle along now, and look out for Mr. Narkom's arrival. It's after nine already, so he'll soon be here." "Anybody a-comin' with him, sir?" "I don't know, he didn't say. Cut along now; I'm busy!" said Cleek.
By his side, holding on with all the might of a chubby hand to an extended forefinger, was his little son, a child some five years old, whose chief delight it was thus to hang on to his gigantic father and toddle about the grounds.
"Robin's mother seemed to think then," says he, "that it was largely my fault. I suppose she'll feel the same about whatever mischief he's in now. If I could only find the young scamp! But really I haven't time. I'm an hour late at the Boomer Days' as it is." "Then toddle along," says I. "If I'm unanimously elected to do this kid-reformin' act, I expect I might as well get busy."
"Ay, that I do, sir, and if you knew how my heart is set on him, for I am sure it must be him, you would not wonder that I make bold to axe you. I never had a son, but if I had, I could not love him better than I did that lad, whom I watched over ever since he was a small child just able to toddle about the decks by himself.
His tone was imperative, and she obeyed, grumbling about his youth and the value of his life to the service. "That's all very nice," he replied; "but I'm in it, and I don't intend to expose you or any one else to the contagion." "I've had it once," she asserted. He looked at her, and smiled in recognition of her subterfuge. "No matter; you're ailing, and might take it again, so toddle back.
Lil, during the few days that I have to be in the city, let's find the house, let's nose around and choose the roof under which you and I will spend all the rest of our honeymoon. What do you say, dear?" "I'd love it, Geordie; I'd just love it. A little house, smaller than this, with windows that catch the sun, quite near the Park, so that we can toddle across and watch the children playing.
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