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Without that, I fear, I am powerless. It ended in Toffy and Peter putting their available cash together and giving Purvis seventy pounds, and the clerkly man of ink produced a stamp and a stylographic pen from his pocket, and made out the receipt on the little dining-room table and handed it to Peter. 'Thank you, said Peter, relenting a little.
'Purvis is putting his little boy to bed and hearing him say his prayers, said Toffy. 'He is a queer mixture. Rosa rose, and walking to the edge of the corridor peered out into the pitch-black night. 'It 's so dark, he said, 'I cannot see a thing. 'Never mind, said Peter, 'there are no wild beasts to spring at you unawares. Do you remember poor Cranley, who was in Pitt's house at Eton?
Toffy had a Bradshaw twelve months old which he promised to consult if Mrs. Avory would walk back with him across the fields again to the house. He consoled her as best he could, and assured her that it would be all right. And Mrs.
She accepted a glass of Miss Abingdon's very special claret and never even touched it; and later, in one of the pauses of her elaborate trifling at luncheon, she told a funny story which made every one laugh, and caused even Canon Wrottesley to attempt to conceal the fact that he saw the point of the story. The worst of it was that Toffy encouraged her in everything she said and did.
No one but Toffy would have loved her; she was quite plain and she was separated from her husband a truculent gentleman who employed his leisure moments in making his wife miserable. And she had a daughter of ten years old towards whose maintenance Mrs. Avory made blouses and trimmed parasols for which her friends hardly ever paid her.
The boys stood crowding against the table, looking at aunt undoing her parcels. In one were sweet biscuits, in another brandy-balls, peppermints, pear-drops and toffy. All this was carefully divided into little stacks and each child was given his share, with the strict injunction not to eat any before noon.
'I declare he shall not play among the Aquatics if he does not pay his boating money. It is an infernal shame. 'Let us ask Buckhurst. Where is Buckhurst? 'Have you got any toffy? inquired a dull looking little boy, in a hoarse voice, of one of the vendors of scholastic confectionery. 'Tom Trot, sir. 'No; I want toffy. 'Very nice Tom Trot, sir.
Peter handed him a cigar-case, and Dunbar accepted a cigar, and slipping it into an old envelope, he deposited it in his pocket. 'I don't believe I should have time to smoke it through now, he said, and he continued filling his pipe. 'I suppose you come across a good many queer tales, travelling about as much as you do, said Toffy. Dunbar nodded without speaking. 'You'd wonder, he said at last.
Toffy to-morrow, mother," continued Fanny, "and if she be still at that place in Salisbury where Mr. Fenwick put her, I'll just go to her. Father won't turn me out of the house along of it." "Turn thee out, Fan! He'll never turn thee out. What 'd a do, or what 'd I do if thee was to go away from us?
On six different occasions she offered him soap, telling him it was toffy, and each time he bit of it generously and without suspicion. Every one else in the house represented law and order to him Elise was the spirit of outlawry, and he her slave.
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