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The lively rat shook his ears with all his natural vivacity. "Pardon me," he cried, "but I'm of Oddity's opinion, heroes like Sir Whiskerandos are the very worst travelling companions in the world! How Ratto has escaped with his life I cannot imagine, but I shall certainly not try the experiment of following your fortunes for an hour!
And is it not good in them, after all their travels, not to forget poor boys like us? Do you know, there was money in the letter?" he added, lowering his voice. "Ah! Captain Blake did you some good turn, did he not?" said the farmer to Bob. "He saved me from " the boy coloured and paused, "From want, I suppose," said Grange, ending his sentence for him, and stroking back Oddity's sleek ears.
"But there was the other rat at its side, with such shining eyes, and such a sharp little nose!" I plead guilty to vanity; I could not hear such a description of myself with Oddity's sober composure.
Billy uttered a cry of surprise: "'There look! if that an't my own pretty spotted rat!" Here I rather rudely interrupted my piebald brother. "Pretty! did he call you pretty? well, well, I shall be obliged to think you so myself, I suppose. Spared by a man, petted by a woman, admired by a child, and all for your beauty, Oddity's beauty!" I could not help laughing outright at the thought.
These plaints were to a woman blissfully beyond comprehending the full import of them, for so much was Annapla taken up with her Gift, so misty and remote the realms of Gaelic dream wherein she moved, that the little Lowland oddity's perturbation was beneath her serious attention. Olivia had that day perhaps the bitterest of her life.
"But still, you think," interrupted the eager old man, "that this noble motive alone would hardly account for the old oddity's riding his hobby so hard. Well, you are right.
Away I scudded, my sides shaking with mirth, leaving the broken jar and the scattered fruits to tell their own tale, and wondering with what stories of midnight alarms the valiant husband and his devoted spouse would amuse their family in the morning. I was glad to see Oddity's kind ugly face again in our native shed.
"I'm your rat!" I exclaimed, highly delighted. "Would there be room for Oddity too?" "I daresay that there is plenty of room; but well, well, Oddity's an excellent old fellow in spite of his ugly skin; and I'll take care that nobody insults him."
"But still, you think," interrupted the eager old man, "that this noble motive alone would hardly account for the old oddity's riding his hobby so hard. Well, you are right.
"Oh! look look, Bob! what a funny rat! what a beauty rat!" he cried, clapping his bony hands together with childish glee. It was comical to see the expression on Oddity's blunt face on hearing this unexpected compliment, perhaps the first that he had ever received in his life.
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