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I thought when you came I'd got somebody that wouldn't get tired of me, and it frets me to see you thinking all the time of that beggar-boy."
He is rich he has been well educated; I have had to educate myself. I came to Norton Bury six years ago a beggar-boy. No, not quite that for I never begged! I either worked or starved." The earnestness, the passion of his tone, made Miss March lift her eyes, but they fell again. "Yes, Phineas found me in an alley starving. We stood in the rain, opposite the mayor's house.
A beggar-boy, with one leg, followed us, without asking for anything, apparently only for the pleasure of our company, though he kept at too great a distance for conversation, and indeed did not attempt to speak.
'How has he ever got the dog up the ladder? cried Harold. 'Well! said Mrs. King, 'I declare he looks like a picture I have seen 'Well, to be sure! who would go for to draw a picture of the like of that! exclaimed Ellen, pausing as she put on her things to carry home some work. 'It was a picture of a Spanish beggar-boy, said Mrs.
At the door of the Criterion Restaurant an enormously fat and white bookmaker in a curly hat and diamonds muttered remarks into the ear of an unshaven music-hall singer. A gigantic "chucker-out" observed them with the dull gaze of sullen habit, and a beggar-boy whined to them in vain for alms, then fluttered into obscurity.
"What, and see him the master of my house he, the poor beggar-boy that my husband fed in charity, and who turned from him with ingratitude in his moment of difficulty, and left him to be despoiled by his enemies? Never! never! Daughter of mine shall never be wife of his! The serpent! to sting the hand of his benefactor!" "My dear Mrs.
"I have no cause to care for the Marquis of Elverston or his sons either, for often when I have passed them and touched my hat, as in decent manners I was bound to do, they have looked at me as if I was a beggar-boy asking for a ha'penny.
Anna Gessner herself, still hesitating upon the threshold suddenly remembered another interest and referred to it with no less ardor. "Oh, that reminds me, Fellows. Has my father spoken again of that dreadful silly business?" "Concerning the young gentleman, miss?" She heard him with unutterable contempt. "The beggar-boy that he wishes to bring to this house. Did he speak of him to-night?"
As soon as Helen had finished one story about the dear fellow, and narrated, with a hundred sobs and ejaculations, and looks up to heaven, some thrilling incidents which occurred about the period when the hero was breeched, Laura began another equally interesting and equally ornamented with tears, and told how heroically he had a tooth out or wouldn't have it out, or how daringly he robbed a bird's nest or how magnanimously he spared it; or how he gave a shilling to the old woman on the common, or went without his bread-and-butter for the beggar-boy who came into the yard and so on One to another the sobbing women sang laments upon their hero, who, my worthy reader has long since perceived, is no more a hero than one of us.
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