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"You see the lawyer suggests coming to see you. He will explain it all. It's a wonderful stroke of luck, Jean. No wonder you can't take it in." "I feel like the little old woman in the nursery-rhyme who said, 'This is none of I. I'm bound to wake up and find I've dreamt it.... Oh, Mrs. M'Cosh!" "It's the wee laddie Scott to say his mother canna come and wash the morn's mornin'; she's no weel.
Was it a nursery-rhyme that the little children of the countryside used to sing? He could not recollect it; he had never heard it before.... Immediately, as upon a divine command, he rose to his feet and ran back to the place where Alypius was sitting, for he had left St. Paul's Epistles lying there.
She had never since set foot in his third-floor bedroom, where Little Miss Muffet and Georgy Porgy and the whole regiment of nursery-rhyme characters, attired in the brilliant aniline hues adored of inartistic, frankly-barbaric babyhood, adorned the top of the brown-paper dado, and flourished on the fireplace-tiles. Only a few weeks more, he said to himself, and he would set her free.
And from his tone, at once modestly content and artificially careless, I knew that that nursery-rhyme fresco was one of the sights of the pleasure quarter of New York, and that I ought to admire it. Well, I did admire it. I found it rather fine and apposite. But the free-luncheon counter, as a sight, took my fancy more.
Hill always chose Agatha departed much more cheerful than she came. So great strength and comfort is there in having something to do, especially if that something happens to be, according to the old nursery-rhyme Not for ourself, but our neighbour. Another day passed which being rainy, made the Doctor's dull house seem more inane than ever to the girl's restless humour.
She remembered how, as a little girl, she had looked up to him reverentially as "big Robby Van Brandt." He was a hero to her in those days, until he had let himself be balked of what he had started out to get. If he had only persisted, insisted, who knows maybe . She was sure that if he offered her his love and she refused to accept it, he would not, like the nursery-rhyme model, try, try again.
Keating went to the telephone again, to worry "long distance"; then, grumbling about his last edition, he came back to ask more questions about Hal's experiences. Before long he drew out the story of the young man's first effort in the publicity game; at which he sank back in his chair, and laughed until he shook, as the nursery-rhyme describes it, "like a bowlful of jelly."
Once again he hesitated. Should he or should he not? The old nursery-rhyme came wandering into his head with its innocent lilt of jolliness: "Here we go round the mulberry-bush, The mulberry-bush, the mulberry-bush; Here we go round the mulberry-bush, So early in the morning." "And so we do," he murmured. "Let's take a chance." The door an apple-green door was opened by a maid as trim as Ann.
It is so scratched and torn that it makes me think of the man of the nursery-rhyme who jumped into the quickset-hedge; and, as it turns out, this one was just such another, only his movement was involuntary. He tells me how he came to be so disfigured.
Give me my sitar and I will sing bravely. She took the light silver-studded sitar and began a song of the great hero Rajah Rasalu. The hand failed on the strings, the tune halted, checked, and at a low note turned off to the poor little nursery-rhyme about the wicked crow And the wild plums grow in the jungle, only a penny a pound. Only a penny a pound, baba only . . .
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