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"I am interested in nothing else," answered the toy-shop keeper, simply. Wayne appeared convulsed with a singular, suppressed excitement. "In that case," he said, "I may approach you with an unusual degree of confidence. Touching the matter of the defence of Notting Hill, I " "Defence of Notting Hill? Yes, sir. This way, sir," said Turnbull, with great perturbation.
He's coming up to have a talk with me to-morrow. 'It is quite a nice shop, said Randolph. 'I expect it has some of the College custom. I saw some books with the College crest on lying about. You can get painting things there, Alie, he added. Rosalys looked interested, and Biddy's face grew some degrees less long. 'Is there a toy-shop? she asked.
How can I show my gratitude to them? I want to make them a present: I must make them a present," says Harry, clapping his hand into his pocket, which was filled with the crisp spoils of Morris and March. "We can go to the toy-shop, my dear, and buy a couple of dolls for the children," says Lady Maria. "You would offend the parents by offering anything like payment for their kindness."
When mankind is smothered with shams and phrases and painted idols a wind blows out of the wild to cleanse and simplify life. The world needs space and fresh air. The civilization we have boasted of is a toy-shop and a blind alley, and I hanker for the open country. This confounded nonsense was well received. Her pale eyes had the cold light of the fanatic.
'Can he be gone to see his pony at Hobbs's! 'No, it has been sent to Fairmead. Then you have no notion where the child can be? Sophy is nearly distracted. She saw him last about ten o'clock, bent on harnessing some kittens, but he's not in the hay-loft! 'He may be gone to the toy-shop after the harness.
Her laugh was like the accidental tinkle of sleighbells in mid-summer, vaguely disquieting, a shiver of frost across the face of a lily. "Save you from what, you great big overgrown, tow-headed doll-baby?" she questioned blandly. "For Heaven's sake, the only thing you need is to go back to whatever toy-shop you came from and get a new head. What in Creation's the matter with you lately, anyway?
"So do I. So does everybody," said Madeline, oracularly, clearing a place on the polished tea-table and emptying out the miniature tops. "They renew your youth. Let's get all these things to spinning at once, Betty." "Why don't you have a toy-shop for your senior entertainment?" asked Eleanor, watching the two absorbed faces.
The conductor went out into the snow to help the nurse, who was assisting the old gentleman to the ground. Then the car swung on again. Jim turned up the collar of his coat about his ears and stamped his feet. There was the florist's shop where he had meant to buy the violets, and the toy-shop was just around the corner. A thought flashed across his tired brain.
She wished to stop to look at them, but there was a great number of people in the streets, and a great many carts, carriages, and wheelbarrows, and she was afraid to let go her mother's hand. "Oh, mother, how happy I should be," she said, as she passed a toy-shop, "if I had all these pretty things!" "What, all! Do you wish for them all, Rosamond?" "Yes, mamma, all."
Wild found a present was ever most welcome to her, as being a token of respect in her lover. He therefore went directly to a toy-shop, and there purchased a genteel snuff-box, with which he waited upon his mistress, whom he found in the most beautiful undress.
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