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So he waited till the Harold Smiths were gone, and Sir Raffle Buffle, and then, when Lily was apart with Emily, for Bernard Dale had left them, he found himself at last alone with Mrs Thorne. "I can't be too much obliged to you," he said, "for your kindness to my girl." "Oh, laws, that's nothing," said Mrs Thorne. "We look on her as one of us now."
He was found half an hour since on the premises of a sweet-stuff maker, where a raffle had been announced for a second-hand seal- skin cap and a tambourine; and where a sufficient number of members not having been obtained at first he had patiently waited until the list was completed. This fortunate discovery has in some degree restored our gaiety and cheerfulness.
But we see no signs of a steaming-trunk anywhere about, Mr Leslie; so Bob and I have been putting in our time on the job of sorting out from among that raffle, there, enough stuff to make a trunk out of; and here it is, sir, if you don't happen to want it for anything else."
Run and Raffle advertised a sale of old shop goods, with the catching words cheap days! Everybody crowded to throw away their money on cheap days; and, amongst the rest, Mrs. Ludgate. One circumstance was rather disagreeable in these cheap days: ready money was required; and this did not suit those who lived by the favourite maxim of the family.
I call it nothing short of a fairy tale." He pointed at his neckscarf. Coming near, Trudy bent over and gave way to a shrill scream. A handsome diamond pin reposed in the old-rose silk. "Where where did you get it?" she managed to articulate. "Beatrice really the result of the raffle for the children's charity. You remember we took tickets?
"So like him, so good!" she would often say pensively. "They paid sixpence apiece for the raffle, twenty tickets, and the doll cost L2. But Jack said nobody could guess what good the ten shillings did to the chimney-sweepers." Naturally enough, I say, my mother liked Uncle Jack; but my father liked him quite as well, and that was a strong proof of my uncle's powers of captivation.
There was a fair at Havre in the Quartier Saint-Francois, and we have eaten up all we could lay our hands on, broken all Aunt Sally's pipes, and purchased all the china horrors and hideous pincushions we could find. They are all over there in the break. We are going to raffle them at Etretat for the poor." The Prince tried to excuse himself and move on, but the little Baroness held him tight.
When the Assistant Secretary first suggested to him that Sir Raffle had an idea of selecting him as private secretary, and when he remembered the cosy little room, all carpeted, with a leathern arm-chair and a separate washing-stand, which in such case would be devoted to his use, and remembered also that he would be put into receipt of an additional hundred a year, and would stand in the way of still better promotion, he was overjoyed.
This world is a huge bazaar, a big church fair, and like other eager-eyed children I promptly set my heart on the great 'bisc' doll with its head turning coquettishly from side to side, singing snatches from 'La Grande Duchcsse', and clad like Sheba's queen! I stake all my pennies on a chance in the raffle, which has a 'consolation prize' hidden away from vulgar gaze.
"So do I, I hate it like poison; but if it is there, I like it to be true. There is a sort of persons going now, and one meets them out here and there every day of one's life, who are downright Brummagem to the ear and to the touch and to the sight, and we recognize them as such at the very first moment. My honoured lord and master, Sir Raffle, is one such. There is no mistaking him.
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