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'I'll tell you what it is, young boa-constructer, said Mr. Weller impressively; 'if you don't sleep a little less, and exercise a little more, wen you comes to be a man you'll lay yourself open to the same sort of personal inconwenience as was inflicted on the old gen'l'm'n as wore the pigtail. 'What did they do to him? inquired the fat boy, in a faltering voice.
On their way to the town they met a soldier, holding a Chinaman by his pigtail, which he had twisted two or three times round his hand. On asking the Englishman what he was about to do with his prisoner, his reply was "Why, sir, this here chap is a coolie recruit; he has received his pay in advance, and was bolting, when I clapped eyes on him, and am taking him back to the barracks."
Hector Darcy knitted his brows, and started in bewilderment at the little figure before him. "Peggy Saville!" he repeated blankly. "No, you cannot mean it! The little girl who had lessons with Rob, and who saved Rosalind's life at the time of the fire? The little girl I met at The Larches with the pale face, and the pink sash, and the pigtail down her back?"
Hardly had they said this when a little man came through the woods. And such a strange little man! He had a great, great head, and from the back of it a slender pigtail hung down to his heels. He wore a golden cap, a red coat and yellow stockings. As he came near he sang: "Hight! hight! Bite! bite!
But later, when Captain Bunce and his officers lighted fat cigars, and he learned that the aforesaid chaplain had merely been a careless devotee of pipe and pigtail twist, Mr. During the breakfast the two lieutenants reported the results of a survey which they had taken of the wreck at daylight. "We find," said Mr.
"Jack, when I asked you where your mother was bad, external or internal, you replied both, and a great deal more besides. So she is internally, externally, and infernally bad," said the doctor, laughing. "And so she amputated your father's pigtail, did she, the Delilah? Pity one could not amputate her head, it would make a good woman of her.
How she traced the diamond from point to point of its travels we do not know, and probably never shall know, but she was undeniably clever and unscrupulous. Poor girl! She came to a dreadful end. Mr. Nicholson, here, identified her at Bow Street to-night." Now the whole amazing truth burst upon me. "I understand!" I cried. "This" and I snatched up the pigtail
She stroked the flaxen pigtail and gently unloosed Susie's clinging hands. "Come, let me tuck you in," she said. "Nurse is going to stay with Dick. Susie, I am very, very tired." Susie's sobs ceased suddenly, and she stood up straight. It was the hardest battle she had ever fought, but she was never one for half measures.
'Spare no man that wears a pigtail, he says. 'An, he says, 'me an' th' German Michael will smile on ye as ye kick th' linin' out iv th' dhragon an' plant on th' walls iv Peking th' banner, he says, 'iv th' cross, an', he says, 'th' double cross, he says.
You will pardon me, I am sure" here he became singularly persuasive "but I have ventured to nail that pigtail fast, and have assumed the somewhat onerous obligation of guarding it. So it is quite impossible to act on your considerate suggestion. "Do you play me for a Modoc?" Nothing could exceed the sudden ferocity with which he thrust this indignant remonstrance into the ear of his guest.
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