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Had Stevenson done that, the brave enemy who chooses to call himself Napoleon might have been defeated twelve hours earlier, and there would have been less sacrifice of life in the divisions of Potty and the ignorant Piffle.
Do you happen to have come across a goggle-eyed, potty little Alderman Brooker? a Town Guardsman who runs a general store in the Market Place that's his place of business with the boarding up, and the end butted in by a Creusot shell that didn't burst, luckily for Brooker. Well, this beast buttonholed me months ago, and began to spin a cuffer about Saxham."
And father and mother and Charles and Aunt Auriol are all potty." "And so am I," she declared, "for he's a dear. And they all say it's time for Aunt Auriol to settle down. So they wanted to get him here and fix him. Charles says he's a shy bird " "But," I interrupted, "you're talking of the family. Your Aunt Auriol has a father, Lord Mountshire." "He's an old ass," said Evadne.
"Madam, you are most hospitable; and the place altogether seems to be of that description. What a beautiful room! May I sit down? I perceive a fine smell of most delicate soup. Ah, you know how to do things at Flamborough." "Young mon, ye can ha' nune of yon potty. Yon's for mesell and t' childer." "My excellent hostess, mistake me not. I do not aspire to such lofty pot-luck.
"Think I'd make a woman a reasonably good husband?" "I do," said I, truthfully. Whatever ailed the man? "Good! And I," the doctor said, deliberately, "know that you'd make any man more than a reasonably good wife. Should you like to be mine, Sophronisba Two?" The jump I gave threw Potty Black off my knees. "You're ill, wandering in your wits, you poor man!" I was genuinely alarmed.
And at the same instant and actuated by the same motive, Potty Black, who had been sweetly and peacefully dozing on my lap, rose up with slitted eyes, bottle-brushed her tail, and hurled herself into the fray. Attacked front and rear, Beautiful Dog was at hideous disadvantage. He launched himself sidewise; he didn't even have time to howl.
He laid his hand on the Doctor's arm, and then jerked it away, and tried to blow off the floury print of his fingers. "Come!" He beckoned. "Come; I show you somedting putiful. Toctor, I vizh you come!" The Doctor yielded. Richling had to be called upon at last to explain the hidden parts and processes. "It's yoost like putt'n' te shpirudt into teh potty," said the laughing German.
When he took the place over at the beginning of the war, they were telling me, it was a little potty concern making toy air guns or lead soldiers or something of the sort. And they never stop coining money now, it seems. Parrish must be worth millions ..." "Lucky devil!" said Trevert genially. "Ah!" observed the doctor sententiously, "but he's had to work for it, mark you!
We will hope so; but this does not explain Piffle's senseless counter-marchings around Scarlet, nor the horribly outflanked and unsupported position of Potty on the line of the Cinnabar river.
'Tricksy, you little owl, he burst out; 'to think of you going on about your potty little feelings and wounded dignity and all that when you had this to show us. 'I I I didn't know, stammered poor Tricksy. 'What is it? cried the others, pressing round to look. 'It's one of the orders that were stolen, said Allan. 'Tell them where you found it, Tricksy, said Hamish.
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