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Then from the yard below he heard Strangwise call: "Rufus! Rufus!" A heavy footstep sounded on the flags. Desmond remained perfectly still. The strain on his arms was tremendous. If Strangwise should go as far as the gate, so as to get clear of the yard, he must infallibly see that figure clinging to the window-sill. "Where the devil is that doggy" said Strangwise.
And Humphrey has to go about a lot. You must, in the Foreign Office. And Frank he is doing all right. He was made doggy to his Admiral only the other day." "Well, at any rate," replied Muriel, "they start from what they are. And you can't say that their chief aim isn't to have a good time.
The tall one was humming a tune. De Launay recognized it with a shock of recollection. "Roll on, my little doggy!" Without a word he sat down also, in a duplicate of their pose. No one spoke for several minutes. Then, the shorter man said, casually, addressing his remarks to nobody in particular. "They's sure a lotta fresh pilgrims done hit this here town."
The wide-mouthed man helped me into my jacket, shook hands with me, and said I had no science, but the devil's own pluck-and-lights. Then he, too, faded away into the night; and I found myself alongside of Doggy Bates, marching up the street after Mr. Stimcoe, who declaimed, as he went, upon the vulgarity of street-fighting.
He "had a word for every one," as poor people say, and a word to the point, for he was as much at home with the shepherd on the hills, or with the angler between Hollylea and Clovenfords, as with the dusty book-hunter, or the doggy young Border yeoman, or the child who asked him to "draw her a picture," or the friend of genius famous through all the world, Thackeray, when he "spoke, as he seldom did, of divine things."
In silence we knelt, and the dog stood between us, puzzled and looking at his master. Once more the dying man's eyes turned towards us, he opened his mouth, and we heard him say yet more slowly and weakly: 'Doggy, do not bark at the Almighty. The faithful creature threw himself whining upon his master's limp hand, from which the life had already fled.
"And now be off again to your friends the Ephesians," he said; "only remember that if you or they or their dog either, poor beasty wants anything, it's only needed to touch this electric bell. As to the doggy," he added, with his hand on the door-knob, "tell him to poke at the button with the tip of his foolish nose." And with that he opened the door and went away.
The doggy buttons and the horsey whip were treasures, indeed, for Miss Celia had not given them when they first planned to do so, because Sancho's return seemed to be joy and reward enough for that occasion. But he did not forget to thank Mrs. Moss for the cake she sent him, nor the girls for the red mittens which they had secretly and painfully knit.
He did not even hear the pointed comments made by the young of both sexes whom he encountered on his interminable walk, and forgot to thank the postmaster for the loan of the cart when he returned it, empty save for a fragment of cold chicken and a faint, doggy smell. For obvious reasons, he could not go to the office and he did not like to take his disturbing mood to Barbara.
Of course there was a baby in the case a baby and mongrel dog, and a little boy and girl. They baby was small, and not particularly fair, but it had round limbs and a dimple or two, and a soft, half-pathetic, half- doggy look in its blue eyes, and the usual knack, which most helpless little babies have, of twining itself round the hearts of those who took care of it.
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