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He added, as Van Busch salaamed and squirmed with more than Oriental submissiveness, "Least of all a sneaking Africander schelm like you. And now, about the money?" "Excellentie " lisped Van Busch, smiling his oily brown face into ingratiating creases ...
Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. It was that of Mr. Toots Cuthbert, arrayed in a faultless morning suit, his tie delicately suggestive of falling leaves; and there dangled over his arm the slenderest of walking sticks. "Mrs. Spence!" he lisped, with every appearance of joy. "Mr.
'Frederic, she lisped, 'you are late. It was a scene of high comedy, such as is proper to unhappy marriages; and her APLOMB disgusted him. There was no etiquette at these small drawing-rooms. People came and went at pleasure.
"Well, perhaps she's not exactly pretty," said Mr Mawley, diplomatically; "but nice-looking, at all events that was the word I used, Miss Bessie." "But she dresses so plainly!" said Lizzie Dangler. "I call her quite a dowdthy!" lisped Baby Blake.
When he referred to the man as the Maltese Cockney, and I asked why, he replied: "First, because he is Maltese, Mr. Pathurst; and next, because he talks Cockney like a native. And depend upon it, he heard Bow Bells before he lisped his first word." "And has O'Sullivan bought Andy Fay's sea-boots yet?" I queried. It was at this moment that Miss West emerged upon the poop.
This appeal seemed to convulse George with inward agony, for he squirmed most effectively as he drew from his pocket a toy hatchet, which would not have cut a straw, then looking straight up into the awe-inspiring countenance of his parent, he bravely lisped, "Papa, I tannot tell a lie. I did tut it with my little hanchet." "Noble boy come to my arms!
"Don't try, ma, Loui' good," lisped the infant on the floor, while Mrs. Kennedy, drying at last her tears, told to the wondering Maude that Louis was not like other children that he would probably never have the use of his feet that a hunch was growing on his back and he in time would be she could not say "deformed," and so she said at last "he'll be forever lame." Poor little Maude!
"Yes," lisped the other, languidly, "met her at breakfast, headquarters, this morning. Deuced pretty and all that, mighty good style, too, but taken, old man. She's Brennan's." "What! not Major Brennan?" in surprise. "Why, he's always posed as a bachelor among our fellows."
Beckman never lisped the details of those unhappy Saturday nights, and the loyal deception was so well carried out, with such devoted attention and nursing, that by early afternoon, Sunday, the invalid was quite restored and any possible self-reproach had been melted away.
Never a man went forth, bowed down with a recent shame, wounded and wincing from the public gaze, but that old rogue hirpled up to him, and lisped with false smoothness: "Thirce me, neebour, I'm thorry for ye! Thith ith a terrible affair! It'th on everybody'th tongue. But ye have my thympathy, neebour, ye have tha-at my warmetht thympathy."
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