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"Hush!" said nurse, more frightened than ever, and looking aghast towards my father, who had very deliberately taken off his hat, and was regarding the scene with serious eyes wide awake. "Hush! And if he did break it, ma'am, it was quite an accident; he was standing so, and he never meant it. Did you, Master Sisty? Speak!" this in a whisper, "or Pa will be so angry."
"Hush!" said nurse, more frightened than ever, and looking aghast towards my father, who had very deliberately taken off his hat, and was regarding the scene with serious eyes wide awake. "Hush! And if he did break it, ma'am, it was quite an accident; he was standing so, and he never meant it. Did you, Master Sisty? Speak!" this in a whisper, "or Pa will be so angry."
Pray beware of Uncle Jack, or we shall all be swept into a coal-mine, or explode with a grand national company for making gunpowder out of tea-leaves!" "Wicked child!" said my mother, laughing; and then, as she took up her candle and lingered a moment while I wound my watch, she said, musingly: "Yet Jack is very, very clever; and if for your sake we could make a fortune, Sisty!"
I have not stinted myself in canvas, and behind my foreground of the Hall and the Parsonage I propose hereafter to open some lengthened perspective of the varieties of English life " MR. CAXTON. "Hum!" "We shall know better the design, perhaps, when we know the title. Pray, Mr. Author, what is the title?" "Ay, Sisty, the title!" "The title! By the soul of Cervantes!
"My dear Austin," said my mother, opening her blue eyes, "you don't think that Sisty will discover all those fine things in Puss in Boots!" "My dear Kitty," answered my father, "you don't think, when you were good enough to take up with me, that you found in me all the fine things I have learned from books. You knew me only as a harmless creature who was happy enough to please your fancy.
With all my heart, so far as I am concerned." "Sisty," said Blanche, with an appalling solemnity on her face, "do you know what I've been thinking?" "Not I, miss what? Something very deep, I can see, very horrible, indeed, I fear; you look so serious."
All I have to say is, that if you add to what I bring an equal sum, to keep up the poor old ruin, it is the utmost that I can allow, and the rest is not more than Pisistratus can spend." So saying, the Captain rose, bowed, and before either of us could stop him, hobbled out of the room. "Dear me, Sisty!" said my mother, wringing her hands; "I have certainly displeased him.
"No, indeed," interrupted my mother. "My dear, you frighten me." My father sighed, and threw himself back in his chair. My mother took courage and resumed. "Pisistratus is a long name too! Still, one could call him Sisty." "Siste, Viator," muttered my father; "that's trite!" "No, Sisty by itself short. Thank you, my dear."
"Oh, Austin!" cried my mother tenderly, and throwing her arms round my father's neck. "Come, sir, you are conquered," said I. "And what is to become of you, Sisty?" asked my father. "Do you go with us, and unsettle your mind for the university?" "My uncle has invited me to his castle; and in the mean while I will stay here, fag hard, and take care of the duck." "All alone?" said my mother. "No.
Nothing more conduces to longevity than a saffron bag, provided always it is worn at the " "Sisty, my thimble!" said my mother. "You laugh at us justly," said Beaudesert, smiling; "and the same remedy, I dare say, would cure us both." "Yes," said my father, "there is no doubt of that.
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