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Updated: June 16, 2025
The dog Mim you remember Mim, sir secretly taught him to filch as well as if he had been a bantling of his own; and, faith, our smaller goods and chattels, especially of an edible nature, began to disappear, with a rapidity and secrecy that our itinerant palace could very ill sustain. "A sad prospect for the heir apparent!" quoth Clarence. "It was so!" answered Cole; "and it made me deliberate.
Uttering this notable extract from the thrice-honoured Sir Henry Wotton, King Cole turned abruptly from the common, entered the wood which skirted it, and, only attended by his guest and his minister Mim, came suddenly, by an unexpected and picturesque opening in the trees, upon one of those itinerant vehicles termed caravans, he ascended the few steps which led to the entrance, opened the door, and was instantly in the arms of a pretty and young woman.
"If I'm brave, I'd like to know what you are." "Oh, I'm not brave, I'm nothing but a selfish little pig," cried Pauline. "I've treated the dearest fellow in the world shamefully. He's forgiven me over and over, but he won't forgive me this time." "He'll forgive you anything, Mim," Blount assured her, "for the sake of getting you safe back.
I was much relieved after parting from you to hear from the doctors that it was the best time for him to have the whooping-cough, in which opinion the 'Mim' concurs. I hope that he is doing well. Bishop Whittle will be here Friday next and is invited to stay with us. There are to be a great many preparatory religious exercises this week.
Heathcliff was nowhere visible; and Joseph, whom I followed to the stables, and requested to accompany me in, after staring and muttering to himself, screwed up his nose and replied 'Mim! mim! mim! Did iver Christian body hear aught like it? Mincing un' munching! How can I tell whet ye say?
"And how's Miss Dolly, sir?" says Joe, pursued the locksmith, musing sorrowfully, 'Ah! Poor Joe! 'Well, I declare, cried Miggs. 'Oh! Goodness gracious me! 'What's the matter now? said Gabriel, turning sharply to her, 'Why, if here an't Miss Dolly, said the handmaid, stooping down to look into her face, 'a-giving way to floods of tears. Oh mim! oh sir.
"Pooh," said King Cole, half tauntingly, half fondly, "pooh, Lucy, blushes are garden flowers, and ought never to be found wild in the woods:" then changing his tone, he said, "come, put some fresh straw in the corner, this stranger honours our palace to-night; Mim, unload thyself of our royal treasures; watch without and vanish from within!"
Some told their feats in beggary; others, their achievements in theft; not a viand they had fed on but had its appropriate legend; even the old rabbit, which had been as tough as old rabbit can well be, had not been honestly taken from his burrow; no less a person than Mim himself had purloined it from a widow's footman who was carrying it to an old maid from her nephew the Squire.
I'll take my oath who was his father! And there she goes as mim and as prim ! 'No, mamma, I said, 'that she does not. She looks as fierce as a lioness! I said. 'What's her name? asked my mother. 'Tuke, I answered. 'Was there ever such a name! she cried. 'It's fitter for a dog than a human being! But it's good enough for her anyway. What was her maiden name? Who was she?
"Oh, how lovely it looks!" ejaculated Bessie, as she entered the house, Norah having opened the door. "But er where's Jane, Norah?" "Cookin' the dinner, mim." "Why, Jane can't cook." "If you please, mim, this is a new Jane." Bessie's parasol fell to the floor. "A wha-a-at?" she cried. "A new Jane. Misther Perkins has dispinsed with old Jane and Ellen, mim."
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