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Neddy. "Well, papa, I fancy that we shall have a great deal to see at St. Petersburg palaces, churches, gardens, all sorts of sights! But what I most want to see is the czar himself, the great autoc-rat of all the Russias." I gave such a start at this, that I dreaded for a moment that I had betrayed my hiding-place.
There was an invalid in the house, little Neddy, the son of Benjamin Hétfalusy's daughter, the son of that once so haughty gentlewoman, Leonora Hétfalusy. This poor lady had been visited by many a terrible calamity. After a youth passed amidst feverish excitements, she had married Squire Széphalmi, and there had been two children of this marriage, a son and a daughter.
In this mood Neddy had to be humored, even though gentlemanly Mr. Bennett sat on thorns. The Sergeant repined less at the delay; he liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself, standing in wholesome dread of Beaumaroy. It was rather with resignation than with joy that he received from Mr.
In "Arlequin Mercure Galant," produced in Paris in 1682, by the Italian Comedians, Harlequin made his entrance on a moke's back and the merriment afterwards being greatly enhanced when Master "Neddy," with Pan seated on its back, suddenly came in two, to the consternation of the beholders. To the Italian Pantomime Comedians we owe many of our stage devices and tricks.
Mother Murden came to the door with a tumbler in her hand, containing a morning nip for Neddy, "to kill the worm," as the Latins say; but the worm was dead already. The merry-makers stood around; the men looked serious and the ladies shivered. They said the air felt chilly, so they bade one another good morning and hurried home. It is hard to say why one sinner is taken and the other left.
After he had gathered a lot of moss and made a soft bed for the invalid, he picked up Dick's gun and walking a few steps down the river bank, shot a curlew that sat on a branch by the stream and was young enough to make a broil or stew for the invalid. "Been breaking the law, have you, Neddy?" "I'd break anything, to get you some nice chicken broth such as I am going to make now."
"So, after all, you prefer to have my money and my property, along wid a good wife, to your brother Ned Neddy I ought to call him, out of compliment to you ha! ha! ha!" "Proceed, Mr. Burke, you are pleased to be facetious." "To your brother Ned Neddy having them, and maybe along wid them the same, wife too?" "No, not exactly; but out of respect to your wishes.
And if, as was likely, they only flourished their heels and refused with scorn to come and be saddled, he uttered his sternest summons, "Ship's company, all hands on deck!" which meant that his son Jacob starboard watch, must come and help port watch Israel himself, to capture Teddy and Neddy. Neddy was generally willing enough, unless when led from the plain course of maritime duty by Teddy.
He lingered for a moment at the door, and looked back with a pensive expression. "You never wish to see that place again, I am sure?" cried Neddy. "No, not the place; but but I should ha' just liked a last peep of the pretty spotted rat who used to lead the old blind un by the stick!"
So away Philip trotted down to the bottom and back again, and then Fred had a turn and stuck on capitally, only when he wanted to turn to the left and come up the field again, Neddy would turn to the right and go the other way an arrangement Fred was obliged to submit to from the fact of his whole attention being required to sit on tight, without guiding his steed.
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