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Irene was all right, no new toy to play with till Buckton ran into that fortune, and now nothing will hold her down. She used to fancy she cared for him, and, now that he has plenty of funds, she is sure of it. The society of this town, sir, is rotten to the core. It is trying to be French, trying to imitate foreign nobility and the New York Four Hundred.
This was of notable use to several persons who had lost pieces of plate they had received from their grand-mothers; to others who had a particular value for certain rings, watches, heads of canes, snuff-boxes, &c., for which they would not have taken twenty times as much as they were worth, either because they had them a little while or a long time, or that somebody else had had them before, or from some other such excellent reason, which often stamps a greater value on a toy than the great Bubble-boy himself would have the impudence to set upon it.
As he walked along the shelf, where the other toys stood, the Trumpeter, for such he was, blew another blast on his golden instrument. And the blast was such a jolly one that every toy in the store felt like dancing or singing. The Jumping Jack worked his arms and legs faster than they had ever jerked about before.
"Not quite," said his father, "though that was a good guess." Then Mr. Brown lifted out the things in the paper, and all at once Bunny saw what it was a little toy train of cars, with an engine and tracks on which it could run. "Does it really go?" asked the little boy, eagerly. "Yes, it really goes," said Mr. Brown.
Her countenance was inexorably imperturbable under his alternate blinking and gazing that drew her close and shot her distant, like a mysterious toy. 'But, said she, 'I am an artist; I dislike the look of extreme age, so I conceal it as well as I can.
So home she came, resolved to do better. Toy was placidly finishing up for the afternoon. Billy followed him around for a while, being a housekeeper. Toy watched her with round, astonished eyes. Finally he turned on her with vast indignation. "Look here, Mis' White," said he. "What a matter with you? You talk just like one old woman!" Billy paused in her mad career and considered.
And once Patrick had saved the Lamb on Wheels, as you may read in the book written specially about that toy. "Did they hurt you, Mirabell or Arnold?" asked the gardener, as he came back from chasing the boys. "No, thank you, not much," Arnold answered. "One bean struck me on the nose, but it didn't hurt hardly any." "And one bean knocked over one of your Soldiers, Arnold," said Mirabell.
Now it was to be his turn, the shackles of his drudgery no longer impeded him, and he, so Michael radiantly prophesied, was to have his rocket-like leap to the zenith, also. "And he's German?" she asked. "Yes. Wasn't he rude about my being a toy soldier? But that's the natural German point of view, I suppose." Michael strolled to the fireplace. "Hermann's so funny," he said.
All sorts of didactics, of Byronic-Bulwerish sentiment, of conventionalities of various kinds, still hold their place; the language, as we have said, is traditional and hardly even that; and the characters are partly drawn from Noah's Arks of various dates, partly from the stock company of the toy theatre.
There was a small lake out of which ran a shimmering creek, and close to this lake, yet equally near to the base of the mountain on which he was standing, were a number of buildings and a stockade which looked like a toy. He could see no animals, no movement of any kind. Without seeking for a downward trail he began to descend. Again he did not question himself.
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