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I canna say that I have seen the fairy folk mysel', though I have heard them often enough, but I am inclined to believe that they had a hand in stealing away the infant laddie frae his parents, and laying his head upon my breast on the moor. I declare to thee, though I couldna stand steady, I was at a stand still what to do.
'And, Sir, how went it with the young laird and leddy? 'For the young laird a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King. Nay, but if you've been at Parish if that's what ye mean with your Lutetia ye'll have seen him an' the King. 'I saw the King, answered Malcolm; 'but among the Englishry.
"Aye, I'll try it, laddie." "Mind, you mustn't clutch hold of me too hard," I cried; and, easying him off from my chest, I turned round again in the water.
Other footsteps came so quickly on Doctor Fritz' retreating ones that Nanny could not rise. It was Laddie this time gay, careless, thoughtless Laddie. "Roses? So Fritz has been here! I have brought you lilies, Avis. Oh, Avis, I miss you so! You were so jolly and good you understood a fellow so well. I had to come here tonight to tell you how much I miss you. It doesn't seem half home without you.
From first to last this lad didn't foozle a single drive, and his approach-putting has to be seen to be believed. Well, got to dress, I suppose. Mustn't waste life's springtime sitting here talking to you. Toodle-oo, laddie! We shall meet anon!" Lord Belpher leaped from his bed. He was feeling worse than ever now, and a glance into the mirror told him that he looked rather worse than he felt.
"He'll grow up, soon, and " "And if only the courteous burglars will wait till he's a couple of years old," suggested the Master, "he " Set gently on the floor by the Mistress, Laddie had crossed to where the Master stood. The man, glancing down, met the puppy's gaze. For an instant he scowled at the miniature watchdog, so ludicrously different from the ferocious brute he had expected.
"There'll be a comeback of some kind to this, Laddie," he told the collie, as they moved on. "I don't know just what it'll be. But those two worthy youths didn't look at all lovingly at us. And there's nothing else in country life so filthily mean as an evicted trespasser. Don't let's say anything to the Mistress about it, Lad. It'd only worry her!
Both were so jolly the funny things the actors did and the chance of having a new playmate that the two smaller Bobbsey twins did not know which was best. "Don't you like this show?" asked Freddie of Laddie, when the curtain went down again. "Yes. It's great! But I'm glad you're comin' to play with me," Laddie answered. "So'm I," answered Freddie. "You're glad too, aren't you, Flossie?"
Miss Amelia started toward me, and I braced my feet so she'd get a good jolt herself, when she went to shake me; she never struck us over the head since Laddie talked to her that first day; but John Hood's foot was in the aisle.
All the elation died in his face, and noticing this, McPhearson, who loitered in the meantime at the door of the telephone booth, remarked: "What's the trouble, son?" "If I was only sure it was Stuart." "That's what I was trying to tell you, laddie, when you ran pell-mell in here to call the police. You ought to have made sure before you gave the information."
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