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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I have a notion, Ciss, that this is the one thing into which I can throw all my energies. The one need of my intellectual life is to deal a savage blow at the influences which ruined all my early years. You can't look at the matter quite as I do; you don't know the fierce hatred with which I am moved when I look back.
"Ciss! fetch him down, boy!" came from a distance, and the dog responded by a bark and a snap at Tom's leg, which nearly took effect as he ran with all his might, and made him so desperate that he suddenly stopped short as the dog made a fresh snap, struck against him, and then from the effort rolled over and over on the ground.
And Cissy told him too that billy winks was coming and that baby was to go deedaw and baby looked just too ducky, laughing up out of his gleeful eyes, and Cissy poked him like that out of fun in his wee fat tummy and baby, without as much as by your leave, sent up his compliments to all and sundry on to his brandnew dribbling bib. O my! Puddeny pie! protested Ciss. He has his bib destroyed.
"Don't do that," cried Tom; "it makes me feel queer." Pete yelled with laughter. "Course it does; but that arn't nothing. Hand over that there sixpence, or " He gave a savage shake, which made Tom turn deadly pale, and shake himself free. "What!" roared Pete. "Oh, yer would, would yer? Lay hold on him. Ciss! have him there!"
However, he soon seemed to come to the conclusion that the lads before him were not to blame for his coming short of the needful refreshment; and, turning the lighted tobacco out of his pipe into the mill-dam, where it fell with a "ciss," he led the way into the mill, from whence he produced three light poles and some string, and from out of a cool damp flower pot three hideous-looking looped up bunches of worms, each with a leaden weight in the centre.
The first was to Miss Cissy Higgins: 'Dear Ciss, I dare say you would like to know that Mr. B. has proposed to me. If you have any objection, please let me know it by return. Affectionately yours, L. E. DERRICK. This she addressed to Margate, and stamped with a little thump of the fist. Her next sheet of paper was devoted to Mr. Bowling, and the letter, though brief, cost her some thought.
"You see dreckerly. You know what dat Injum look about for?" "No." "Lose um knife." "Well?" "Pomp got um." "You have? Where?" "Down dah," he said, making a sign with one foot toward the loose moss and leaves he had picked. "Why, Pomp," I whispered, joyfully, "how did you manage that?" "Ciss! Coming."
"No, George; it is not likely that I should allow a person in Mrs. Mallet's position to speak disrespectfully to me about Cecilia. Cecilia said Mrs. Mallet was perfectly respectable." "I should not think dear old Ciss exactly knew the meaning of the word." "Cecilia may be peculiar in many ways, but she is too much of a lady to send me any one who was not quite nice.
Here, Badger, smell him, boy ciss smell him!" The cur showed his teeth, and uttered a low snarling growl, as its master advanced urging him on; while Tom drew one leg a little back ready to deliver a kick, but otherwise stood his ground, feeling the while that everything was not going to be peaceful even in that lovely village.
Just then there was a little spluttering noise as if the pan were chuckling. "For doing nothing!" shouted Uncle Paul, and a sound from his room suggested that he had set down the washhand jug with a bang. "The scoundrels who invaded our shores?" Ciss! said the pan. "That they didn't, sir!" cried the landlady.
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