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With a wondering look Boz kept repeating in a low voice: "'Codlin's the friend not Short. What can he mean? What do you make of it?" I knew perfectly, as did also the little lady who stood there smiling and flattered, but it was awkward to explain. But he played with the thing; and it could only be agreed that Forster at times was perfectly "amazing," or "a little off his head."
Alec quickly, as a doleful sniff from Aunt Myra, and a murmur of "My sainted Caroline," made Rose pause and look that way. "Take time, cousin; don't be in a hurry to make up your mind, and remember, 'Codlin's your friend," added Charlie, hopeful still. "I don't want any time! I know who I love best, who I'm happiest with, and I choose uncle.
Mr Codlin would have risen to receive it, but the child hurried towards him and placed it in his hand. He stuck it in his buttonhole with an air of ineffable complacency for a misanthrope, and leering exultingly at the unconscious Short, muttered, as he laid himself down again, 'Tom Codlin's the friend, by G !
'Short's very well, and seems kind, resumed the misanthrope, 'but he overdoes it. Now I don't. Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it. But the child was puzzled, and could not tell what to say. 'Take my advice, said Codlin: 'don't ask me why, but take it.
'A man of the name of Jerry you know Jerry, Thomas? 'Oh, don't talk to me of Jerrys, replied Mr Codlin. 'How can I care a pinch of snuff for Jerrys, when I think of that 'ere darling child? "Codlin's my friend," she says, "dear, good, kind Codlin, as is always a devising pleasures for me! I don't object to Short," she says, "but I cotton to Codlin."
He rose smartly, looked straight into the face of his questioner, and exclaimed confidently: 'Codlin's your friend, not Short! The audience was completely mystified. The answer had no more to do with the question than Dutch cheese has to do with the rings of Saturn. For a fraction of a second you could have heard a pin drop.
'Halloa! what are you up to, my dear? said Mr Codlin, raising his head, and yawning. Then observing that his companion was fast asleep, he added in an earnest whisper, 'Codlin's the friend, remember not Short. 'Making some nosegays, the child replied; 'I am going to try and sell some, these three days of the races. Will you have one as a present I mean?
I think they're breaking up down stairs; you needn't tell Short, you know, that we've had this little talk together. God bless you. Recollect the friend. Codlin's the friend, not Short. Short's very well as far as he goes, but the real friend is Codlin not Short.
The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet.
It was the part about Codlin and Short, the Punch and Judy men. In the middle of dinner, without the slightest provocation or warning, he would suddenly drop his knife and fork, throw himself back in his chair, slap his leg a sounding blow with his hand, and shriek out, 'Codlin's your friend, not Short, and then go off into ecstasies of glee as he told the tale all over again.
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