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I reached the top landing again, three steps at a time; but the voice that said "Come!" was not Helen's and the figure that turned from pulling at the shades was short and rolypoly and crowned by flaming red hair. "Miss Winship?" said the voice, as its owner seated herself at a big table. "Can't imagine what's, keeping her. Are you the John Burke I've heard so much about?
Then he turned toward the stout bugler, clad in the gayest suit of all, and looking like "a rolypoly pudding," as one of the other boys declared. "Now!" called out the patrol leader, in a tone of authority.
Every day had he sat on a little stool beside the rolypoly millionaire, and written from dictation letter after letter in French with which language the rolypoly was sadly unfamiliar.... And when next day Count Bragard took back his treasure of treasures, his personal water glass, remarking briefly that he needed it once again, I was not surprised.
Hot mockturtle vapour and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out from Harrison's. The heavy noonreek tickled the top of Mr Bloom's gullet. Want to make good pastry, butter, best flour, Demerara sugar, or they'd taste it with the hot tea. Or is it from her? A barefoot arab stood over the grating, breathing in the fumes. Deaden the gnaw of hunger that way. Pleasure or pain is it?
Inside the house a fat, awkward man was struggling, or pretending to struggle, into his coat. "Roll into it, Mr. Rolypoly," she answered cheerily as she entered. "Of course I'm not the star boarder nothing for me!" he said in affected protest.
She was being disagreeable and not at all like the good-natured rolypoly chum of past years. "Janet has never been to school," she said quietly, "she has always had a tutor." "Oh, Aunt Jane's poll parrot! That means she will know twice as much as any of us," Sally cried. Aunt Jane's poll parrot was a mythical bird of wisdom that Sally always appealed to in moments of excitement.
The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the rolypoly, it was too good. The porter was frothy and cool, and the port-wine was worthy of the gills of a bishop. I speak with ulterior views; for there is more in Gray's cellar.
I have already noted the fact that Count Bragard conceived an immediate fondness for this rolypoly individual, whose belly as he lay upon his back of a morning in bed rose up with the sheets, blankets and quilts as much as two feet above the level of his small, stupid head studded with chins.
"Well, that's magnificent. What will you do with it?" Kitty rose and held out her hand. "Go back to your flying partner, happy man, and ask her what she would do with five hundred dollars if she had it." "She'd buy her lord and master a present with it, of course," he answered. "Good-bye, Mr. Rolypoly," she responded, laughing.
'Not as old as as Methuselah, or old Rolypoly there, but I believe she's a grandmother. If she'd been a boy, we should have been cut out of it. Oh yes, she's a lady a born Morton; and when it was over she was very jolly about it no harm done bears no malice, only Ida makes such an absurd work about every little trifle.
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