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"Why not?" inquires Corkey. "You bet your sweet life you tell me what your name is!" "N-n-n-noah!" "Why not? Tell me that!" "M-m-my name is N-n-noah!" exclaims the boy. "Ho! ho!" laughs Corkey. "Let's see them fingers! Got any more in your pockets?" "N-n-n-noah," answers the boy. "Got six toes, too?" "Y-y-yes, sah!" "A dead mascot!" says Corkey. It is an auspice of the most eminent fortune.
"I d-d-don't b-b-blame you fer laughin', M-M-Miss M-M-M-Markley," said Sam miserably. "What at?" demanded Nora fiercely. "At m-m-my air. I know it's funny, cut off, that way. But I c-c-can't help it. It's gone." "I didn't," exclaimed Nora hotly, her face flushing. "Your ears is all right. I was laughin' at seein' you move 'em. I beg your pardon. I didn't know anybody could, that way, you know.
The first intelligible words he spoke were those that had last passed his lips: "M-m-my f-f ," and from his melancholy eyes a meagre tear slid into a wrinkle and was lost. Dr. Lavendar, sitting beside him, put his old hand over the other old hand, that lay with puffed fingers motionless on the coverlet. "Yes, Benjamin, it was your fault, and mine, and Samuel's.
We were all responsible because we did not do our best for the boy. But remember, his Heavenly Father will do His best." "M-m-my f " the stammering tongue began again, but the misery lessened in the drawn face. Any denial of the fact he tried to state would have maddened him. But Dr. Lavendar never denied facts; apart from the question of right and wrong, he used to say it was not worth while.
As he stood at the foot of the bed, dully looking down, the thick tongue broke into a whimpering stammer: "M-m-my f " And at that, something seemed to melt in the poor locked heart of the son. "Father!" said Samuel Wright passionately. He stooped and took the helpless fingers, and held them hard in his own trembling hand. For a moment he could not speak.
That fixing the pillow behind the shaking helpless head, swept away the last traces of the quarrel. He sat down by the gloomy catafalque of a bed, and when Benjamin Wright began to say again, "M-m-my f " he stopped him with a gesture. "No, father; not at all. He would have gone away anyhow, whether you had given him the money or not.
In a wave of sickening horror Peter remembered the scenes after the Preparedness Day explosion. Were they going to put him thru that again? "We'll have a show-down, Gudge, right here," the head detective continued. "You tell us all this stuff about Angell his talk with Jerry Rudd, and his pockets stuffed with bombs and all the rest of it and he denies every word of it." "But, m-m-my God! Mr.
Then, in a sudden rush, His Majesty the King was delivered of a few inarticulate sounds, followed by the words: "Go a way you dirty little debbil!" "Toby! What do you mean?" "It's what he'd say. I know it is! He said vat when vere was only a little, little eggy mess, on my t-t-unic; and he'd say it again, and laugh, if I went in wif vat on my head." "Who would say that?" "M-m-my Papa!
The delighted landlord, feeling it incumbent upon him to break the silence, offered the friendly observation: "S-s-see you s-s-stutter. S-s-stutter a little m-m-my own self." "Shake!" responded the doctor, who was in too complacent a mood to take offence, and the worthies grasped hands. "Don't know any w-w-way to s-s-stop it, do you?" asked the landlord. "No, I d-d-don't; t-t-tried everything.
And she got out and he got out, and they looked so silly and she said, `M-m-my friend, Professor Reid, and he tried to shake hands with mother three separate times over, and couldn't find her hand, he was so horribly embarrassed, and then we all drove home in the most horrible silence, and came into the drawing-room, and Esther went crimson in the face, and said, `Father and mother, I want to tell you Professor Reid has asked me I have per- omised to be his wife, and he scraped his feet on the floor and blurted out funny short sentences, three words at a time, `Love her dearly, `Feel much honoured, `Object of life, `Make her happy, and mother said, `Oh, my dear child, I am so glad!
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