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'Niece? said the Stranger. 'Wife, roared John. 'Indeed? observed the Stranger. 'Surely? Very young! He quietly turned over, and resumed his reading. But, before he could have read two lines, he again interrupted himself to say: 'Baby, yours? John gave him a gigantic nod; equivalent to an answer in the affirmative, delivered through a speaking trumpet. 'Girl? 'Bo-o-oy! roared John.
At a given moment, D'Orsay learned that a young man known as Lord Raoul Ardale was in reality his son. Instantly the man of the world, the squire of dames, went off into a deliquium of tender emotion. For "my bo-ô-oy" he would do anything and everything. He would go down to Crockford's and win a pot of money to pay "my boy's" debts Fortune could not but be kind to a doting parent.
Satisfied at last upon that point, the stranger asks of John, as a new matter of curiosity to him, "Baby, yours?" Whereupon the Reader, as John, "gave a gigantic nod, equivalent to an answer in the affirmative, delivered through a speaking-trumpet." Stranger, still unsatisfied, inquiring, "Girl?". "Bo-o-oy!" was bellowed back by John Peerybingle. It was when Mrs.
Peerybingle herself took up the parable, however, that the merriment excited among the audience became fairly irrepressible. Scarcely had the nearly stone-deaf stranger added, in regard to the "Bo-o-oy," "Also very young, eh?" Vaccinated six weeks ago-o! Took very fine-ly! Considered, by the doctor, a remarkably beautiful chi-ild! Equal to the general run of children at five months o-old!
All the girls followed her in rotation making the same gesture and the same reproach upon my being a boy. It gave me a great scare. I believe I cried, and I know it was a long time before I could again face a girl without a strong desire to run away. Theobald felt at first much as I had myself done at the girls' school, but the Miss Allabys did not tell him he was a nasty bo-o-oy.
"Niece?" said the Stranger. "Wife!" roared John. "Indeed?" observed the Stranger. "Surely? Very young!" He quietly turned over, and resumed his reading. But, before he could have read two lines, he again interrupted himself to say: "Baby yours?" John gave him a gigantic nod: equivalent to an answer in the affirmative, delivered through a speaking trumpet. "Girl?" "Bo-o-oy!" roared John.
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