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They scarcely saw him again till after the funeral, when late in the day he came into the drawing-room, and saying that his aunt was pretty well and composed, he knelt down on the floor with the little Awk, and silently built up a tower with her wooden bricks.
You know it will be an interesting novelty for you to talk, and me to listen! and he has not seen the baby. Albinia gained her point, but Mr. Kendal and Lucy first tucked her up upon the sofa, till she cried out, 'You have swathed me hand and foot. How am I to show off that little Awk? 'I'll take care of that, said Mr.
'You might post it for less than that, said Sophy. 'Don't you know, said Ulick O'More, who was playing with the little Awk in the window, 'that the feminine mind loves expedients? It would be less commonplace to confide the parcel to the conductor, than merely let him receive it as guard of the mail bag and servant of the public. 'Exactly, laughed Genevieve.
I glanced at the ticket, knitting my brows. "Well, it's listed at 'AWK/, but to you, madam, the price is " I looked at her, smiling. "Yes?" she said, with her grey eyes on mine. Her eyebrows were raised a little, and the soft lips had taken on the curve that tells of laughter hardly controlled. "Another look like that," said I, "and I'll give it you and pay the carriage."
"Reel reg'mental?" echoed Hardy mincingly, "aowe gorblimey! 'awk t'im? well, wot abaht it? I've done my bit, too! in Injia. See 'ere; look!" He pulled up the loose duck-pant of his right leg. On the outside of the hairy, spare but muscular limb, an ugly old dirty-white scar zigzagged from knee to ankle. "Paythan knife," he informed them briefly, "but I did th' blowke in wot give it me."
Poor little Awk stared, as well she might, and obediently made the utmost efforts to say after him, Mishenahma, king of fishes, but he was terribly discomposed at getting nothing but Niffey-ninny, king of fithes.
Kendal would resume his book after a lecture upon good manners, and then be roused to find his library a gigantic cobweb, strings tied to every leg of table or chair, and Maurice and the little Awk enacting spider and fly, heedless of the unwilling flies who might suffer by their trap.
"Brave young feller," said somebody. I blushed. This was Fame. "Jumped in, he did, sure enough, an' saved the gentleman!" "Be the old soul drownded?" "That girt fule, 'Arry 'Awk!" I was sorry for Mr. Hawk. Popular opinion was against him.
'But I gave him a dig in the nose, cried Maurice, in exultation; 'I pulled ever so much hair out of his whiskers. I had it just now. 'This sounds very sad, said Albinia, interrupting the search for the trophy. 'What were you doing in the painting-room? You know you had no business there. 'Why, mamma, little Awk wanted me to look at the pictures that Lucy shows her.
Then groaned that knight, and addressed him to Sir Gawaine, and with an awk stroke gave him a great wound and cut a vein, which grieved Gawaine sore, and he bled sore. Then answered Gawaine, it grieveth me but little, thy great words shall not fear me nor lessen my courage, but thou shalt suffer teen and sorrow or we depart, but tell me in haste who may staunch my bleeding.