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Oh, couldst thou but smile on my timid advances! Say, wilt thou be thine own knife-grinder's bride?" Mrs. Worse beat time with her knitting as she joined in the chorus "Whirr! whirr! Blithely we go. Never say no! My foot's on the treadle, which rocks to and fro!"
Joey went to the knife-grinder's wheel, and Spikeman followed him without looking back; he heard a rustling, nevertheless, among the bushes, which announced to him that his manoeuvres had succeeded; and, as soon as he was about fifty yards from the road, he took the wheel from Joey, desiring him to look back, as if accidentally. Joey did so, and saw Miss Mathews following them with her eyes.
Wish you good morning, ladies," said Joey, taking up his wheel and rolling it away. "Well, Araminta, what do you think now? That's no knife-grinder's boy; he is as well-bred and polite as any lad I ever saw." "I suspect that he is a little story-teller, saying that he could not write and read," Araminta replied. "And so do I; what made him in such a hurry to go away?"
"Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle," said he, putting the child on one knee and working away with it as though he were turning a knife-grinder's wheel with his foot. "Mamma, Mamma," said Julia crossly, "I don't want to be diddle diddled. Let me go, you naughty old man, you." Poor Mr. Thorne put the child down quietly on the ground and drew back his chair; Mr.
They then requested a detail of his adventures since he quitted Gravesend, of which Joey told everything that he safely could; passing over his meeting with Furness, by simply stating that, while he was asleep, his knife-grinder's wheel had been stolen by two men, and that when he awoke he dared not offer an opposition.
Our hero considered that he could not do better than follow the advice of Spikeman. He first wrote a few lines to Mary, requesting that she would send her answer to Dudstone; and then, having settled with the hostess, he set off with his knife-grinder's wheel on his return home to what were now his apartments.
Now, of all things in the world, I understand the least of mechanism I have neither genius, or taste, or fancy and have a brain so entirely unapt for every thing of that kind, that I solemnly declare I was never yet able to comprehend the principles of motion of a squirrel cage, or a common knife-grinder's wheel tho' I have many an hour of my life look'd up with great devotion at the one and stood by with as much patience as any christian ever could do, at the other
"No, saucebox, I don't; but I mean to turn my knife-grinder's wheel into a wheel of fortune; and with your help I will do so." "You are sure of my help if you are serious," replied Joey; "but how you are to manage I cannot comprehend."
Now, he felt sure that he was safe at Portsmouth, as it would be the last place at which Furness would make his appearance; and he also felt that his knife-grinder's wheel, in supplying Furness with the ostensible means of livelihood, and thereby preventing his being taken up as a deserter, had proved the best friend to him, and could not have been disposed of better.
"I have my money in my pockets, my portmanteau at Cobhurst, and now it depends upon the rapidity of my success when the day is to come that I make the knife-grinder's wheel over to you. I will go down now, but without you this time."
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