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He stopped before her house, hesitated, was about to approach the door. Then Totty no stranger being near called softly across the street: 'Mr. Ackroyd! He turned at once, and came over. 'Why, is that you? he said. 'What are you doing there, Totty? 'Oh, nothing. So they've let you go? She spoke indifferently.
It did not seem at all surprising that Adam said he would go too, and soon he and Hetty were left alone together on the walk by the filbert-trees, while the boys were busy elsewhere gathering the large unripe nuts to play at "cob-nut" with, and Totty was watching them with a puppylike air of contemplation.
Totty closed the door, and produced from her cupboard a receptacle regarded with profound interest both by Nelly and the maturer Jack a pot of black currant preserve. She spread some with a liberal hand on the lad's bread, then watched him as he ate, her enjoyment equalling his own. The bread finished, she offered a spoonful of jam pure and simple; it was swallowed with gusto.
They had come back in company, and Swartboy had secured them both as a reward for his watchful patience. He had brought the plumes with him, not as a mere evidence of his triumph, but intended to be taken on to Graaf Reinet, and there presented to his "Totty." The Bushman stated that he had seen a large flock of ostriches while waiting for the two he had killed.
I was busy all the afternoon in cutting `wait-a-bit' thorns for a kraal. Totty helped me to drag them up, while Jan and Truey looked after the flock. The animals did not stray out of the valley here, as the grass was good, and they had had enough of trotting lately. "Well Totty and I got the kraal, as you see, all ready.
She who had never got up in the morning without the certainty of seeing familiar faces, people on whom she had an acknowledged claim; whose farthest journey had been to Rosseter on the pillion with her uncle; whose thoughts had always been taking holiday in dreams of pleasure, because all the business of her life was managed for her this kittenlike Hetty, who till a few months ago had never felt any other grief than that of envying Mary Burge a new ribbon, or being girded at by her aunt for neglecting Totty, must now make her toilsome way in loneliness, her peaceful home left behind for ever, and nothing but a tremulous hope of distant refuge before her.
But it wouldn't have happened at all but for you going on drinking you know that very well, Mr. Ackroyd. 'I suppose it wouldn't. It doesn't matter. I just wanted to see you'd got home all right. Good-night! 'Good-night! Mind you get home safe, that's all. She turned away. He turned away. But he was back before she had crossed the street. 'I say, Totty! 'What is it?
So many bright faces and white pinafores were a sweet spectacle to Bessie, who was so merry that Totty was quite tamed by the time the dessert of ripe fruit came; and would sit on "Sissy's" lap, and apply juicy grapes to "Sissy's" lips then as "Sissy" opened them, suddenly popped the purple globes into her own little mouth, which made everybody laugh, and was evidently a good old family joke.
"Did you find that trumpet in your stocking, young man?" Archibald nodded. "I want my " "I found this!" Lydia held up one of Patricia's many dolls. They all crowded about him, claiming his attention, Totty demanding to be taken up. "Got your hands full, Daddy?" Patricia laughed. About the candle-lighted tree Patricia's small guests circled admiringly.
Often and often she rehearsed conversations with him, in which she told him how unworthy it was to fall so, and implored him for his own sake to be a man again. She might have realised such a dialogue though it would have cost her much but for the news that he had begun to pay attention to Totty Nancarrow. Then she knew jealousy.
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