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She knew no other phrase of gratitude than the one "Muvver" Jim and Toby had taught her to say to the manager when she received from him the first stick of red and white striped candy. "You're very welcome," Douglas answered with a ring of genuine feeling in his voice. "Awful quiet, ain't it?" she ventured, after a pause. "Guess that's what woke me up."
It opened at his bidding, and a dirty-faced, ragged-frocked little girl shuffled into the room holding out a letter in her hard, grimy, claw-like hand. "'Ere's somethin' as has just come for you, Mister Phadrig. Muvver told me ter bring it up, and wot'll yer want for supper, and will yer give me the money?" she said in a piping monotone, still holding out her hand after he had taken the letter.
Go back to yer old Talbots and be the nice lady's little boy with velvet kicksies and a clean anky once a week. That's what you do." Dickie looked forlornly out over the river. "I can't 'elp what I dreams, can I?" he said. "In the dream I'd got lots of things. Uncles and aunts an' a little brother. I never seen him though. An' a farver and muvver an' all. It's different 'ere.
"It isn't that, but it is the first thing I have ever kept from mother, and I would feel so much more comfortable if she knew." "Baby. An' so de ittle baby must tell its muvver ev'yting," he mimicked her, till she felt ashamed of her good impulse an impulse which if she had yielded to, it would have saved her from all the bitterness she was to know. "And so you will do as I ask you, darling?"
At last the great gate swung open, and a cab rattled its leisurely way up the drive. In an instant the children were on their feet, jumping up and down and clapping their hands. "Mother," shouted Shenton, "they're coming!" Little Natalie clambered in stumbling haste up the steps and clutched Mrs. Leighton's skirts. "Muvver," she cried, in an agony of ecstasy, "they're coming!"
The others looked toward him without moving, and when he came close and leaned against the table, Muvver looked up at him and said something, and then leaned back again, her head resting against the chair, her eyes closed, her hands dropped down. How tired Muvver always looked! And just then 'Stashie spilled all the cocoa she was going to use to flavor the pudding with.
He drew her nearer to him, and the warm blood that shot to her cheeks brought back her strength. She rose unsteadily, and looked about her. Jim came toward her, white and trembling. "All right, Poll?" "Oh, Muvver Jim!" She threw herself into his arms and clung to him, sobbing weakly.
People who are not relations say Miss and Mrs." "Are faver and muvver relations?" asked Josephine timidly. "Y-es no! I don't know," admitted Drina; "are they, Eileen?" "Why, yes that is that is to say " And turning to Selwyn: "What dreadful questions. Are they relations, Captain Selwyn? Of course they are!" "They were not before they were married," he said, laughing.
You could see the grape-arbor plainly from there Muvver sitting with her hair all mussed up around her face, listening to the new man, who sat across the table from her and talked and talked and talked, and never moved a finger. Uncle Marius put his hand up quick to his side and said something Ariadne couldn't catch.
'Are you quite warm enough, Jim? 'Yes, dad. I started to walk up and down I always did this when I was extra worried. I was frightened now about Jim, though I tried to hide the fact from myself. Presently he called me again. 'What is it, Jim? I was scared now. 'Take the blankets off me, muvver I'm dying. And I couldn't get that out of my head.
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