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"And Miss Robin didn't know Madame was Madame," explained Harkness, his face perplexed. "She and Miss Beryl here've been thinking she was some mysterious lydy or other Williams says they got it in their little heads she was a Queen hiding " "Madame hiding where?" snorted Budge. "Well, I can't make nothing out of it. My head goes 'round in a circle like.
"I shouldn't count on that if I were you." "Do 'ave me, miss. I'll always troi and 'and things so no one sees my bad oye." "It isn't that I don't want you; but it's so unlikely that I shall ever have a home." Mavis offered her hand. "Oh, miss, you are good to me, and you a reel lydy." "Be a good girl and look after your mistresses." "That I will, miss. Whatever should I sy to that there Mr.
It was good-bye. Then she turned and faced the old man, who had paused in the doorway. She held Jessie silently towards him. Transferring the strings held in his right hand to his left, he took the wriggling dog from Cuckoo, lifted her up and down as if considering her weight, ran his eyes over her points with the quick decision of knowledge. "'Ardly a show dawg, lydy," he said.
Nurse Jinny Jones and me scrouged into the pit one night without paying, "pertendin'," as we were in uniform, we had come to take out a "Lydy" that had fainted. Such larks! and such a glorious theayter! I'll tell you another time. Tell aunty the Queen's always out when I call. But that's nothing, everybody else is so affable and polite in London.
She finds the 'ouse a bit dull, I daresay, so durin' the season she stops mostly with Lydy Mary Percy, at Grosvenor Square. Lydy Mary's a h'only sister."
'I was stupid to come, she thought. 'He must be terribly overworked. Poor man! He does say lovely things! And, crestfallen, she went along the passages, and once more out into Floodgate Street. She walked along it frowning, till a man who was selling newspapers said as she passed: "Mind ye don't smile, lydy!" Seeing that he was selling Mr.
Folks used to send 'em to us to bring up; oftentimes they stayed on after they were of age. Sister Lydia came that way. Well, well, she tired of us, Lydy did, poor girl! She went back into the world twenty years ago, now. And Sister Jane, she was a bound-out child, too," he rambled on; "she came here when she was six; she's seventy now." "What!"
At length the iron gate of number 400 was reached. Cuckoo stopped. "In 'ere, lydy?" said the old man. She nodded, unable to speak. He turned in with his crowd of pattering dogs, and proceeded jauntily up the narrow path. Cuckoo followed slowly and with a furtive step. She longed to open the front door, let him in, and then run away herself.
"If Missy wants a young lydy for a companion, well, she's a right to the kind of young lydy she wants." But Budge had escaped the reach of his voice. In the library Cornelius Allendyce was patting Robin on the head. "Well, you've won out in the first skirmish, my dear. But keep your weapons at hand."
"The studio is h'only open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays," explained the man he referred to himself as "Jymes" "but of course we make exceptions in the case of pynters. Lydy Elling Treffinger 'erself is on the Continent, but Sir 'Ugh's orders was that pynters was to 'ave the run of the place."
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