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Updated: May 13, 2025
Even Mothers, who love you better than anyone else ever will, don't always understand. "That's a likely little brooch you've got on, Miss," said Perks the Porter; "I don't know as ever I see a thing more like a buttercup without it WAS a buttercup." "Yes," said Bobbie, glad and flushed by this approval.
'Then, says I, 'here's a mighty wrong been done, and it's for you to set it right afore you die, and if you manage as I tell you, you can be even with Mr. Alfred; and he perks up his head and asks how, and says I 'This way' but what I said'll be made manifest by Mr. Stacy, without my jumpin' ahead o' the proper time.
Perks sat down heavily in the elbow-chair and looked at them with what Bobbie afterwards described as withering glances of gloomy despair. "So you've been round telling the neighbours we can't make both ends meet? Well, now you've disgraced us as deep as you can in the neighbourhood, you can just take the whole bag of tricks back w'ere it come from. Very much obliged, I'm sure.
Next moment the stairs creaked and Mrs. Perks came down, buttoning her bodice. Her hair was brushed very smooth and tight, and her face shone with soap and water. "I'm a bit late changing, Miss," she said to Bobbie, "owing to me having had a extry clean-up to-day, along o' Perks happening to name its being his birthday. I don't know what put it into his head to think of such a thing.
The Perks children, now as shiny-faced as anyone could wish, stood at the wash-house door, and scowled at the intruders. There was a silence, an awkward silence. "DON'T you like it?" said Peter, again, while his sisters patted Mrs. Perks on the back. She stopped crying as suddenly as she had begun. "There, there, don't you mind me. I'M all right!" she said. "Like it?
And then they heard the voice of Mr. Perks, loud and rather angry. "I don't care," he said; "I won't stand it, and so I tell you straight." "But," said Mrs. Perks, "it's them children you make such a fuss about the children from the Three Chimneys." "I don't care," said Perks, firmly, "not if it was a angel from Heaven. We've got on all right all these years and no favours asked.
When some pretentious impostor of an idea perks itself up and says, 'Look at me, I 'm a new acquaintance, I just give it a nod, and say 'Not at all, you have only got a new coat on; you are the same old wretch that has bored me these last twenty years; get away. But if one could be in a new skin, if I could be for half-an-hour your tall porter, or one of your eminent matter-of-fact men, I should then really travel into a new world. Every man's brain must be a world in itself, eh?
Is it agreed?" "Luggage, of course, mister; but them there arn't luggage. Curiosities, didn't you say? What's in 'em?" "That is my affair, Mr Perks." "'Badiah P. Perks, please mister. Now, then, is it square and confidence, and 'Badiah P. Perks' friends, or isn't it?" "I shall place every confidence in the captain of our vessel, Mr Perks." "'Badiah P. Perks, mister."
She had to swallow once or twice before she could begin. Mrs. Perks had been crying steadily ever since her husband had opened the wash-house door. Now she caught her breath, choked, and said: "Don't you upset yourself, Missy. I know you meant it kind if he doesn't." "May I read the labels?" said Bobbie, crying on to the slips as she tried to sort them. "Mother's first. It says:
And what d'yer think he said?" "I don't know, Jerry," said Dick, dreamily, for he was again thinking of his own troubles. "He said I'd better enlist, and then he could have me as his servant again." "Yes, exactly." "Well, sir, it's 'bout the last thing I should ever ha' thought o' doing, but it seemed all right. Officer's servant wouldn't be bad, and there'd sure to be some perks." "Some what?"
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