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"Leonora, my treasure!" he exclaimed joyously, "things go well for Giovanni with la bella Nina? Hein? With her fortune! And to have such an air and grace, too it is really Giovanni that is a lucky one!" Before his wife could interrupt he went on, "Five hundred thousand dollars income that is to be her dot, isn't it?
The duty of receiving Mr. Johnson fell upon Mrs. Farragut, because Bella, in another room, was scrambling wildly into her best gown. The fat old woman met him with a great ivory smile, sweeping back with the door, and bowing low. "Walk in, Misteh Johnson, walk in. How is you dis ebenin', Misteh Johnson how is you?"
'An' what t' dickins had she to do wi' Philip? asked Kester, in intense surprise; and so absorbed in curiosity that he let the humbugs all fall out of the paper upon the floor, and the little Bella sat down, plump, in the midst of treasures as great as those fabled to exist on Tom Tiddler's ground.
Go easy." "You're an awful smart boy, Pete. It's a sin you've never had any schooling." "Schooling! Gosh! I've had all the schooling I could digest. Hugh beat it into me. He's taught me all he had in his head and a whole lot he never ought to have had there, I guess. But you've taught me most, Bella that's the truth of it." "Me! I never knew anything. They saw to that.
Charlie's bees soon discovered them, and Bella often declared that except for the time when the beans were in flower and drew the bees away, she had no peace or pleasure with her flowers from the time they began to bloom until after they were gathered and sold. "I am sure I ought to have half the profits from the honey," she laughed, "for I nearly keep the bees!"
Mr and Mrs Boffin were reported sitting in this room, when Bella got back. Entering it, she found the Secretary there too; in official attendance it would appear, for he was standing with some papers in his hand by a table with shaded candles on it, at which Mr Boffin was seated thrown back in his easy chair. 'You are busy, sir, said Bella, hesitating at the door.
I tried to throw it off, and to laugh and talk again with Bella.
The sailor boy who gave Bella to the Morrises has got to be a large, stout man, and is the first mate of a vessel. He sometimes comes here, and when he does, he always brings the Morrises presents of foreign fruits and curiosities of different kinds. Malta, the cat, is still living, and is with Mrs. Morris. Davy, the rat, is gone, so is poor old Jim.
At seven o'clock, when Bella had dropped asleep and everybody else was dressed for dinner, Aunt Selina discovered that the house was cold, and ordered Dal to the furnace. It was Dal's day at the furnace; Flannigan had been relieved of that part of the work after twice setting fire to a chimney.
As it was, the introduction of such evidence was an insult to their intelligence, and she had sufficient faith in their manhood and perspicacity to know that such puerility would not sway them in the verdict they were to give. And, on the other hand, in dealing with the particular points at issue, she denied that any intimacy had been shown to have existed between Bella and St.
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