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Updated: May 12, 2025
An' I fought if I was deaded too, like Berta, I could go an' tell her I never meaned to be gweedy. An' I wouldn't eat my bweakfust, nor my dinner, nor nothing and at last my tummy shut, and I didn't want nuffing more." The Mother-Superior and the Colonel Commanding exchanged a glance over the little round head before the man's voice answered the child. "That wouldn't have made Bertha happy.
Susan admired it and then looked at the baby, who was pensively surveying her brother's creation. "And did the baby play, too?" she asked. "Oh, no, she couldn't. She doesn't know nuffing, she's too small," with the scorn of one year's superiority. The baby raised her solemn eyes to the young girl and made no attempt to vindicate herself.
'Madame want "nuffing"? said Marie. 'No, no, no! Don't be so stupid. It's an English thing, Marie; you wouldn't understand. Something I've forgotten to tell the cook about. It's so cosy I always think in the winter in London. It always cheers me up. You know, what is it?... I know muffins muffins! she said the word carefully to the French maid. Edith came to the rescue.
I quickly told him my story, and how I had been forced to leave the last negro quarters. I used Jacob Gilleu's name as authority for seeking shelter with him from the damps of the half-submerged lands. The dignified black man bade me "fear nuffing, stay here all de night, long's you please; treat you like white man. I'se mity poor, but gib you de berry best I hab."
Aware that he had not merited such hard treatment, he now replied plaintively: "Nuffing at all, sir!" "Well, in any case, I have not yet given his training over to Brady," observed Mr. West dryly, and without further question Jack was sentenced to twenty minutes' detention at twelve o'clock, "to see how he liked his own treatment".
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