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Monkey gave her brother a nudge that nearly made him cry out. He wondered what she meant, but all the same he returned the nudge significantly. For Cousin Henry, when he smiled, had plainly shown two teeth of gold. The children had never seen gold-capped teeth. 'I'd like one for my collection, thought Jimbo, meaning a drawer that included all his loose possessions of small size.
A curious pang tore its way into the big man's heart as he saw him a curious, deep, searching pain that yet left joy all along its trail. Positively moisture dimmed his eyes a second. But Jimbo belonged to some one else. Daddy's wumbled head projected instantly again from the window beneath. 'A box? he asked, equally excited. 'A box from Scotland? Why, we had one only last month.
His mother's voice ran off into a thin trickle of sound, miles and miles away, and the light from the lamp followed him with its glare for less than half a second. All had vanished. "Jimbo, dear, where have you been?
The functions of the brain resumed their normal course. The delirium of the past few hours was over. Jimbo was lying at home on his bed in the night-nursery, and his mother was bending over him. At the foot of the bed stood the doctor in black. The nurse held a lamp, only half shaded by her hand, as she approached the bedside.
He was turning over and over, like a piece of wood in the waves of the sea, and the governess, caught by Fright, the monster of her own creation, drifted away from his consciousness as a dream melts away in the light of the morning.... From the gleaming mountains and treeless plains below Jimbo thought there rose a hollow roar like the mocking laughter of an immense multitude of people, shaking with mirth.
As he passed the courtyard near the Guillaume Tell, and glanced up at the closed windows of Mother Plume's apartment, a pattering step startled him behind, and Jimbo came scurrying up. Rogers kissed him and lifted him bodily upon the top of his portmanteau, then helped the carpenter to drag it up the hill. 'The barriers at the level crossing are down, the warning gongs are ringing.
It's over there. He pointed up to the mountain heights behind them, but Jimbo guided his hand in the right direction towards the Boudry slopes where the forests dip upon the precipices of the Areuse. 'Yes, that's it exactly, he said, accepting the correction instantly; 'only I go to the top of the mountains first so as to slide down with the river of starlight.
The place where the pole caught her, however it was its lighted end shines and glows to this day: the centre of her little heart. 'Do let's be careful, pleaded Jimbo, hardly approving of these wild gyrations. He really did prefer his world a trifle more dignified. He was ever the grave little gentleman.
You came in that train 'I was thinking about it in England, he exclaimed, 'and about coming out to find you here. 'The Starlight Express, put in Jimbo. and you were just coming up to speak to us when we woke, or you woke, or somebody woke and it all went, said Monkey. 'That was when I stopped thinking about it, he explained. 'It all vanished anyhow.
He could just see the brass knobs of the bedstead as the dying firelight quivered and shone on them. The walls and ceiling were draped in shadows that altered their shapes from time to time as the coals dropped softly into the grate. Gradually the fire sank, and the room darkened. A feeling of delight and awe stole into his heart. Jimbo loved these early hours of the night before sleep came.
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