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I suppose you are some poor starved journeyman tailor come from France, where you have been learning to cabbage, and have not seen a good meal of victuals these seven years. You have been living upon rye-bread and soup-maigre, and now you come over like a walking atomy with a rat's tail at your wig, and a tinsey jacket.
"Spose I am an 'atomy," said the old woman, apparently rather pleased with the epithet than otherwise. "But Lor' bress you, chile, dat won't do at all! You ain't ole enough yet!" and there was an unmistakable sneer on the withered black face, to think that any body could be so verdant. "Ah!" said Egbert Crawford, who neither liked the sneer nor the intimation.
"Now, what the good year! are we to send you down to Scotland as thin as you came up? I am sure it would be contrary to the course of nature. There was my goodman's father, old Sandie Christie, I have heard he was an atomy when he came up from the North, and I am sure he died, Saint Barnaby was ten years, at twenty stone weight.
He tried to get his hands out, and rub the place: but he could not, for they were stuck fast in the chimney. Now he was forced to attend. "Hey!" he said, "why, it's Tom! I suppose you have come here to laugh at me, you spiteful little atomy?" Tom assured him he had not, but only wanted to help him.
Make love indeed the atomy the shrimp the dried-up stock-fish. Love, quotha and refuse to hang a cur like that. O dear! O dear! get me something to put on. One of my best chemises all in rags and his nasty teeth in my leg in two places, Babette. Well, well, Mr Vanslyperken, we shall see I don't care for their custom.
"Well, I am sure!" said Annie, throwing her arms around poor mother: "who could have thought that little atomy had such an outrageous spirit! For my part I cannot think how she can have been sly enough to hide it in that crafty manner, that John might think her an angel!" "Well, for my part," I answered, laughing, "I never admired Ruth Huckaback half, or a quarter so much before.
Oh, whatever shall I do, if you won't stop when I tell you?" "Where are all the rest of you? Oh, in the kitchen, are they? You poor little atomy, how many of you are dead?" "None of us dead, sir; without it is the baby;" here Geraldine burst into a wailing storm of tears.
Yes, yes, Mr Vanslyperken, we shall see we are evidence, Mr Vanslyperken and I'll not be married before I see you well hanged, Mr Vanslyperken. Deary me, Babette," exclaimed the widow, altering her tone, "I wonder how the corporal is: poor dear man, to be ruled by such a traitorous atomy as he." "Perhaps he will come ashore, madam," replied Babette.
Yes, yes, Mr Vanslyperken, we shall see we are evidence, Mr Vanslyperken, and I'll not be married before I see you well hanged, Mr Vanslyperken. Deary me, Babette," exclaimed the widow, altering her tone, "I wonder how the corporal is: poor dear man, to be ruled by such a traitorous atomy as he." "Perhaps he will come ashore, madam," replied Babette.
Will he go on shrinking, I wonder? become at last a mere lurking atomy in his own recesses, a kind of hermit crab, the bulk of him a complex mechanism, a thing of rags and tatters and papier-maché, stolen from the earth and the plant-world and his fellow beasts?
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