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"The Frenchies might shoot me, to be sure," Nandy allowed. "That's one way of looking at it. But King George would take the risk o' that, and give me a shilling down for it." "O Nandy, Nandy here's a shillin' for 'ee, if that's what you want! But be a good boy, and don't talk so irreligious!"
Is't the hated foeman?" and so on, and so on. Aunt Barbree, with tears in her eyes, would purse out sums varying from sixpence to half a crown, coaxing him to dismiss such murderous thoughts from his mind; and thereupon he'd take another turn and mope, saying that it ill became a lad of his inches, let alone his tremenjous spirit, to idle out his days while others were dying for their country; to oblige his aunt he would stand it as long as he could, but nobody need be surprised if he ended by drowning himself, And this frightened Aunt Barbree almost worse than did his talk of enlisting, and drove her one day, when Nandy had just turned seventeen, to take a walk up the valley to consult Dr.
In good time, please God. Here Mr Plornish delivered himself of an oration which he invariably made, word for word the same, on all such opportunities. It was couched in the following terms: 'John Edward Nandy. Sir. While there's a ounce of wittles or drink of any sort in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it.
The worst trial of all was that, somehow or other, Nandy got to know his value and the reason of it, and from that day he gave Aunt Barbree no peace. He wouldn't go to school; study gave him a headache.
As the spectacle of their approach met his view, he displayed the utmost agitation and despondency of mind; and altogether regardless of Old Nandy, who, making his reverence, stood with his hat in his hand, as he always did in that gracious presence turned about, and hurried in at his own doorway and up the staircase.
We had a gay week of it after Christmas, when the whole eleven of us went on some Dutch-treat spree every night, before going back to our studies. Then came those last grueling months in Berlin, when Carl had a breakdown, and I got sick nursing him and had to go to a German hospital; and while I was there Jim was threatened with pneumonia and Nandy got tonsillitis.
Before Nandy knew whether he stood on his heels or his head one of these gentlemen had gripped him by the collar, and was requiring him to say instanter what the devil he meant by it. "Why, damme," shouted someone, "if 'tisn't the uniform of the Thirty-second! Here! Shilston! Appleshaw!" "What's wrong?" "The fellow belongs to yours." "The deuce he does! Slew him round and show his face."
"Oh, Nandy, Nandy!" this was Miss Sophia's voice "Have you really been and gone and enlisted!" "No, miss, I ha'n't," by this time Nandy was blubbering for very fright. He tore himself loose and fell at Miss Sophia's feet.
I wish I knew but it is best for no one to write to me how Mr and Mrs Plornish prosper in the business which my dear father bought for them, and that old Mr Nandy lives happily with them and his two grandchildren, and sings all his songs over and over again.
"Well to be sure, if Nandy don't object " said Aunt Barbree, hurried-like. Nandy thought that to live for a while in a fine house and be fed like a fighting-cock would be a pleasant change; and so the bargain was struck. Poor lad, he repented it before the first week was out.
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