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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Oh, but you must have another name." "That's all," they stubbornly insisted. "Where do you live?" "Nowhere." "Haven't you any mamma?" "She's gone." "But who takes care of you?" "Nobody," gulped the one called Loie. "Mittie did, but she runned away and lef' us," added Lewie. "Where are you going now?" "To fin' mamma." "But you said she was dead."
Most of the crew I already knew, from my visits to the brig during vacation time; but, Tom being a comparative stranger albeit all of them had witnessed the "striking proof" of the honour the skipper considered our coming on board had done him Jorrocks thought best to introduce us in a set speech, saying how we were "a good sort, and no mistake"; and that, although we were the sons of gentlemen, who had "runned away from school," we were going to shake in our lot with them "like one of theirselves."
"Retreated, they calls it," he observed, with fine scorn. "Runned away's the plain English of it." And with this pronouncement all the loafers round the hotel garage cordially agreed, and, subsequently, black looks and muttered comments followed Garth's appearance in the streets.
He seemed in a very bad temper, and Duke and Pamela shivered with fear. "Oh I wish us had runned away," whispered Pamela, though, when she tried to lift herself up and found she could not put the wounded foot to the ground even so as to hobble, she felt that to escape would have been impossible.
He were taken back by his father after a bit, and came a-coorting Miss Violet Granger, that lived over at Deemster Hall. But his brother, Mr. Rudolph, cut him out, when he went off to Germany for a spell, and he and Miss Violet runned away together, and when he come back he found his bride stolen.
"I dunno when I've set up so late," the good woman said to her husband, as she wound up the clock. "It's near nine o'clock. But one thing I tell you, Peter Collins, afore I get a mite of sleep Nobody's going to send that po' child back to the 'sylum she's runned away from. Tain't no use for you to say a word." "Is I said a word?" asked Mr. Collins.
And he heard the Lion grunting " "Lions don't grunt," said Sylvie. "This one did," said Bruno. "And its mouth were like a large cupboard. And it had plenty of room in its mouth. And the Lion runned after the Man for to eat him, oo know. And the Mouse runned after the Lion." "But the Mouse was running after the Crocodile," I said: "he couldn't run after both!"
Have you run away? He laughed and nodded: 'Bess Brown did take me to school, but she slapped me, and I runned away, and Jim tooked me down to the water, and we picked these booful flowers, and I loves you, and Jim said I might give 'em to you. 'And who is Jim? 'Jim is waiting for me, Jim is, he's sittin' on the gate; you come and I'll show you him.
Wal' this Bert runned away a long while ago, an' never cum back; but he left a baby behind him a gurl baby which a quadroon slave give birth too. The quadroon's name wus Delia, an' the kid wus called Rene. Git them names in yer head. Ol' Beaucaire he knew the gurl wus his son's baby, so he brought her up 'long with his own daughter, who wus named Eloise.
"She's been dead a long while," answered Bob. "Yes," chimed in Willie. "Mother's dead, and we've runned away from father. He beat us." "Poor little chap!" said the woman, looking at the younger boy. And then she made him sit by the fire, while she poured out two cups of steaming hot coffee.
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