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He sat out all the changes, and then he come off. "Toby," he says, with a quiet smile, "the little man will now walk three times round the Cairawan, and retire behind the curtain." When we called him in the morning, we found him gone into a much better Society than mine or Pall Mall's. I giv Mr.
There were ways and means of leading astray in that hotel, to which even his street life had not given him access; and if anybody's brain ever appeared ripe for mischief of any sort, it was certainly Tode Mall's. Any earthly friend, if he had possessed one, would have watched his course just now with trembling terror, and made predictions of his certain downfall.
Don't, for pity's sake, study any later," and Theodore ran lightly up stairs and entered his own room on tiptoe. The room was utterly unlike Tode Mall's early dream.
Darrel, was concerned in it. For examples of allusions to contemporary customs, see Sir Toby's mention of dances no longer known, 'Galliard, 'Coranto, etc. As an example of allusions to persons of that time, Sir Toby's reference to 'Mistress Mall's picture, Mary Frith, born in 1584, died in 1659, a notorious woman who used to go about in man's clothing and was the target for much abuse.
"Speak out then, captain." "Who may you be?" "There is my card," was the reply, and a slip was taken out of a pocket-book and pushed across the table, to be picked up by the captain, who read: "`Sir Humphrey Leigh, Pioneers' Club, Pall Mall. Humph! Pall Mall's in London, isn't it, sir?" "Yes." "Then now I know your name, sir. But do you know anyone here, sir?"
Nor could they concentrate their distracted thoughts upon the menu plate after plate was taken away untouched, while I kept on emptying mine in self-defence, to pass the time, wondering if, in my rôle of the Pall Mall's "greedy Autolycus," my friends would now convict me of the sin of public eating as well as what they had been pleased to pretend was my habit of "private eating," for not otherwise, they would assure me, could they account for the unfailing flamboyancy of my weekly article on cookery.
"I'd as lief go to Buffalo as anywhere else the thing is to get there; but then I can get on the cars, and get off at Buffalo if I can, and before if I have to." This matter settled, his spirits began to rise at once; and by the time Mr. Hastings and he crowded their way through the midnight train, the cars contained no such gleeful spirit as Tode Mall's.
Violet Hunt was almost as faithful. And both contributed, as I did, a weekly column mine that amazing article on cookery to the Pall Mall's daily Wares of Autolycus, daily written by women and I daresay believed by us to be the most entertaining array of unconsidered trifles that any Autolycus had ever offered to any eager world.
One in particular, who sat near the stove, and made such good use of the dampers that Mr. Hastings had no use for his cloak, even after unstrapping it, but flung it into a great furry heap on the nearest seat behind him, and knew not then, nor ever, that the insignificant little act was one of the tiny links in the chain of circumstances that were molding Tode Mall's life.
Tode Mall's father kept an unmitigated grog-shop, or rum hole, or whatever name you are pleased to call it, without any cut glass or medicinal purposes about it, and sold vile whisky at so much a drink to whoever had sunk low enough to buy it. So now you know all about how these three baby brothers commenced their lives. One day it rained oh, terribly.
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