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The Beedles were a noted 'old stock' in Suffolk, so it appeared, and to be connected with a Suffolk Beedle was, to certain provincial minds of limited perception, a complete guarantee of superior birth and breeding. Walden was well accustomed to receiving a call from Mrs. Poreham about every ten days or so, and he did his utmost best to dodge her at all points.
"It's young Master Loristan I'm speaking to, not his servant. It's time he was talked to about this." "Silence, woman!" shouted Lazarus. "Let her speak," said Marco. "I want to hear. What is it you wish to say, Madam? My father is not here." "That's just what I want to find out about," put in the woman. "When is he coming back?" "I do not know," answered Marco. "That's it," said Mrs. Beedle.
Would you believe it? until she came to London she'd never seen a black beedle. Here Ma always gave a little laugh, as though not to have seen a black beedle! Well! It was as if to say you'd never seen your own feet. When that family was sold up she went as "help" to a doctor's house, and after two years there, on the run from morning till night, she married her husband. He was a baker.
One of the soldiers crossed the bridge, and found Beedle expiring. Did not stop to bury him, the sun being high; but set out immediately. Country woody, but level. About half past ten o'clock came to Mr. Scott lying by the side of the path, so very sick that he could not walk. Shortly after Mr. Martyn laid down in the same state.
"The wall-eyed thing!" exclaimed Miss Carrington, with asperity. "Why, Tom Beedle once say, you folks, excuse me a while this is an old friend of mine Mr. what was it? Yes, Mr. Summers Mr. Goldstein, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Oh, what's yours? 'Johnny''ll do come on over here and tell me some more." She swept him to an isolated table in a corner.
Blithers sold her place to Cap'n Spooner; the youngest Waters girl run away with a music teacher; the court-house burned up last March; your uncle Wiley was elected constable; Matilda Hoskins died from runnin' a needle in her hand, and Tom Beedle is courtin' Sallie Lathrop they say he don't miss a night but what he's settin' on their porch."
You and I and Lazarus are to go," he said to The Rat. "God be thanked!" said Lazarus. "God be thanked!" Before the messengers came, it was the end of the week. Lazarus had packed their few belongings, and on Saturday Mrs. Beedle was to be seen hovering at the top of the cellar steps, when Marco and The Rat left the back sitting-room to go out.
This last announcement, generally thrown in casually, was apt to be startling to the uninitiated, and it was not till the genealogy of the Beedle family had been duly explained to the anxious enquirer, that it was seen how important and allsufficing it was to have had a Beedle for one's maternal parent.
"My poor father!" she was wont to say, smoothing her sleek bandeaux of grey hair on either side of her forehead with one long, pale, thin finger "He was such a good man! Ah yes! and he had such a lovely mind! My mother was a Beedle."
Buchanan followed with a fish-shaped vessel, one of the most important specialities of which consisted in side propellers, the surfaces of which were roughened with minute diagonal grooves to effect a greater grip on the air. No less original was the air ship, 100 feet long, and carrying 18,000 cubic feet of gas, which Mr. W. Beedle was engaged upon.
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