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'The Dustman! they cried with excitement, easily recognising his energetic yet stooping figure; and Jimbo added, 'the dear old Dustman! while Monkey somersaulted after him, returning breathless a minute later with, 'He's gone; I couldn't get near him. He went straight to La Citadelle
You save shoe leather, too, she added laughingly. 'Will you be back to tea? He thought not; he would get a cup of tea in town. 'May I come, too? from Jimbo. 'Why not? thought Mother. 'Take him with you, he'll enjoy the trip. Monkey and Jane Ann, of course, went too. They all had tea in a shop, and bought chocolate into the bargain.
The sweet spring winds came laughing down the street, bearing a voice that mingled with their music. Daddy! Daddy! vite; il y a un paquet! sounded in a child's excited cry. 'It arrives this afternoon. It's got the Edinburgh postmark. Here is the notice. C'est enorme! The figure of Jimbo shot round the corner, dancing into view. He waved a bit of yellow paper in his hand.
He's had it in his pocket for weeks. Jimbo, ignoring the foolish interruption, watched his cousin's face, while Jinny gave her sister a secret nudge that every one could see. 'Darling Jimbo, was what Rogers read, 'I have been to school, and did strokes and prickings and marched round. I am like you now.
Jimbo's governess ought to have known better but she didn't. If she had, Jimbo would never have met with the adventures that subsequently came to him. Thus, in a roundabout sort of way, the child ought to have been thankful to the governess; and perhaps, in a roundabout sort of way, he was.
'It's only a bit of crystallised starlight, he explained, 'that escaped long ago from the Cave. And starlight, remember, shines for everybody as well as for yourselves. You can buy a stamp with it occasionally, too, he added, 'and write to me. 'We will. Of course! Jimbo straightened up a moment before the final collapse of sleep.
Jimbo stared in silence. 'What a girl! he thought. 'I'd like to be like that! Already the light was sticking to him. 'So this is where she always comes, said Monkey, soon recovering from the temporary attack of emotion. 'She's better out than in; she's safest when asleep! No wonder she's so funny in the daytime.
'And I, and I, cried Monkey and Jane Anne, for it was a half-holiday and all were free. Jimbo would not have appeared to hurry for a kingdom. 'I think I'll join you, too, remarked Mother, biting her lips, 'only please go slowly. There were hills to negotiate. They went off together in a party, and the governesses watched them go.
The moon, meanwhile, rose higher and higher, drawing a silver veil over the stars. Upon the field the dews of midnight fell silently. A faint mist rose from the ground and covered the flowers in their dim seclusion under the hedgerows. The hours slipped away swiftly. "Come on, Jimbo, boy!" cried the governess at length. "The moon's below the hills, and we must be off!"
She did not answer for some time; she lay watching his face and fondling his smooth red wings; and, presently, when she did begin to explain, Jimbo found that the child in him was then paramount again, and he could not quite follow what she said.
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