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But the train came, and Reardon, without a glance behind, though in a curious haste as if he wanted at least to escape Lydia's eyes, entered and was taken away. Again Lydia went home, and now she sat by the fire and could not talk, her elbows on her knee, her chin supported in her hands. "What is it?" Anne asked her. "You look mumpy." Yes, Lydia, said, she was mumpy. She thought she had a cold.
Bob, don't forget your purliteness," said Tim. "Come, Mumpy; father calls you Mumpy, doesn't he?" "Yes." "Then so will I. Well, Mumpy, as I was goin' to say, you may come an' work with my rod if you like, an' we'll make a game of it. We'll play at work. Let me see where shall we be?" "In the garden of Eden," suggested Bob. "The very thing," said Tim; "I'll be Adam an' you'll be Eve, Mumpy."
"I'll get you something to eat, and then you won't have to take me," and out into the kitchen she ran, with the mumpy baboon after her. All Pinky saw on the table was a lemon, and, thinking the baboon might like lemonade, she caught hold of it, cut it open with a knife, and then Well, that baboon made a jump for her, and, as he did so, Pinky accidentally squeezed the lemon.
"Quite true, lads; though why you should say `fust' instead of first-rate, Tim, is more than I can understand. However, you'll get cured of such-like queer pronunciations in course of time. Now, I want you to look on little Mumpy as your sister, and she's a good deal of your sister too in reality, for she came out of that same great nest of good and bad, rich and poor London.
Hardly had they got thawed out when an epidemic of mumps broke out. They made quick work of evacuating those who had it, and stop its spreading, to the regret, I am afraid, of a good many of the boys. One of them said to me the day after the mumpy ones were taken over to Meaux: "Lucky fellows. I wish I had the mumps.
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