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Yes, I do want any number, of course, or why should I ring up?... I want 6375 Gerrard. Here Archie interposed. 'Mother, can I have your long buttonhook? 'No, Archie, you can't just now, dear.... Go away Archie.... Yes, I said 6375 Gerrard. Only 6375 Gerrard!... Are you there?
Whilst I was dressing he would delight in picking up my scissors, pins, buttonhook, and anything else he could lift, and would carry them to the edge of the dressing-table and throw them down, turning his sly little head to see where they had fallen.
But what's it all about?" "Oh, it's something awful that's happened to me," he wails. "It's too terrible to talk about. You'll know to-morrow. I sha'n't be alive then, Torchy." "Ain't swallowed a buttonhook, have you?" says I. Next he begins throwin' a fit about what's goin' to become of the missus and the kid.
The real boy must have a knife with things in it: a corkscrew, I wonder why a corkscrew? a buttonhook, a thing to take stones out of horses' hoofs, a thing to mend traces with I know I am ignorant of the technical terms but the hardest-hearted shop-assistant will never fail to help a professional aunt in the choice of a knife, unless by chance he should be unhappy enough never to have been a boy, and such cases are rare.
Betty tried to shake the window bars, but they were immovable. She tried to force the door open, but her silver buttonhook was an insufficient lever, and her tooth-brush handle broke when she pitted it in conflict against the heavy, old-fashioned lock.
Gray, a bandersnatch, or a buttonhook, or a battering-ram," impertinently suggested the glib undergraduate who had been applying these words to everybody and everything, and who continued to do so until she had found a new catchword as the main substance of her conversation.
"Handkerchiefs did you get them in?" Veronica nodded. "Towels, soap case, hairpins, buttonhook?" "Everything," replied Veronica. "Slippers, bathrobe " "I forgot the slippers!" exclaimed Veronica, and sped after them. The hall clock chimed half past three and Nyoda started nervously. "Plenty of time," said Migwan soothingly. "Come downstairs now and drink your coffee and eat something."
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