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As she spoke she put down her feet and pushed the tempting number of the Family Paper from her. "There!" she said; "poor little Miss Dunstable may marry the Dook of Mauleverer-Wolverhampton just as soon as she pleases, but I won't have you put out, Miss Renny." "I did want something nice for dinner," said Verena. "Then I'll manage it.
I'll get what I can, although the notice is short, and the dook's nuptials, so to speak, at the door." "What!" said Miss Tredgold. "I beg your pardon again, ma'am, but my head aches and I'm a bit confused. I'm reading a most wonderful account of the wedding of the Dook of Mauleverer-Wolverhampton." "I never heard of him."
'Please do, said Robert, 'if it's not too much trouble. It would be very kind of you. Mr Peasemarsh put his hands in his pockets and laughed, and they did not like the way he did it. Then he shouted 'Willum! A stooping ostler appeared in a stable door. 'Here, Willum, come and look at this 'ere young dook! Wants to buy the whole stud, lock, stock, and bar'l.
She was little and determined, and, it must be admitted, not quite unaccustomed to that kind of thing. "Will you let me pass?" she said. "There's a policeman at the next turning." "There really is," said one of them. "The Dook has another engagement. Dream of me, Olivia!"
'Well, no, I ain't a mummy as fur as I knows on, said Sinfi, only half-appeased; 'but my daddy's a 'Gyptian duke for all that, ain't you, dad? 'So it seems, Sin, said Panuel, 'but I ommust begin to wish I worn't; it makes you feel so blazin' shy bein' a duke all of a suddent. 'Dabla! said the guest Jericho Boswell. 'What, Pan, has she made a dook on ye? The Scollard began to grin.
"Betty," the boy, answered to this earnest lamentation with a sound word of good common sense. "You're a-goin' to sleep in one o' them boxes to-night, ain't you, Sarah?" he asked, and she admitted the truth of his conclusions. "And sweeter dreams I would have if I knew where the Dook was a-layin' his 'ed this night," she added.
"Tom," cried the one-eyed man, "wot's all this we heerd of Ted Jarraway of Swansea bein' knocked out in five rounds by this 'ere Lord Vibbot, up in London?" "Vibbot?" repeated Cragg, frowning into his tankard, "I 'aven't 'eard of no Vibbot, neither lord, earl, nor dook." "Come, Tom," coaxed the other, "everybody's heerd o' Buck Vibbot, 'im they calls the 'Fightin' Barronite."
"Well, if you don't know it, sonny, which I can hardly believe on, and wants for to know to improve your mind, which needs a lot of improvement, as I knows, that theer signal, Tom, was that cruiser we saw out at Spithead yesterday a-trying her speed at the measured mile, the Mercury, I thinks she is, axin' the port-admiral if she might have her sailin' orders; and look there, sonny, the `affirmative' 's now run up at the mizzen aboard the Dook, over yonder!"
Thus one by one the stakes were planted in a perfectly straight line, so that when Captain Wopper was requested by the Professor to look through the telescope which he did with a seaman's readiness and precision he observed that all the stakes together appeared to form but one stake, the bottom of which was touched on one side of the Mer de Glace by the centre-point of the crossed threads, and, on the other, by the extreme point of the "Dook" of Wellington's nose.
"The dog won't fly at him, child; he flashed at the dog with his eye, and scared him. He'll get up." "Nonsense, bebee! you make me angry; how should he get up?" "The dook tells me so, and, what's more, I had a dream.
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