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He swore with an oath that he'd compel her to drink, but suddenly changed his mind and drank it himself. "Now, Tot, tell father all about your visit to Miss Stivergill. She's very rich eh?" "Oh! awfully," replied Tottie, who felt an irresistible drawing to her father when he condescended to speak to her in kindly tones. "Keeps a carriage eh?" "No, nor a 'oss not even a pony," returned the child.
Of course Aspel has consented all the more that it is conveniently situated near to a station whence he can easily reach the field of his missionary labours." "Does he intend to continue these now that he is rich?" asked Miss Stivergill. "How can you ask such a question?" replied her friend, with a slightly offended look. "Aspel is not a man to be easily moved from his purpose.
"Come, now, don't stop there," observed Miss Stivergill calmly, "go on to tell me that Phil Maylands has also had a fortune left him, or become Postmaster-General and got married, or is going to be."
"Thank you, m'm," replied Tottie, with another dip. "Have you a bonnet and shawl, little Bones?" Tottie, in a state of considerable surprise, replied that she had. "Go and put 'em on then, and get that thing also ready to go out." Miss Stivergill pointed to the baby contemptuously, as it were, with her nose.
It needed little explanation to tell that in crossing a ditch on a single plank Tottie had stumbled and gone headlong into the water with baby in her arms. Fortunately neither was hurt, though both had been terribly frightened. Miss Stivergill was equal to the occasion.
If you see Miss Lillycrop, tell her I've gone to the village, and won't be back for an hour." So saying, Miss Stivergill walked down the lane with masculine strides, leaving Tottie pleased, and her father smiling. "I don't want no beer, Tot," said the latter. "But you go to the cottage and fetch me that dear little dog.
"I look round regularly every night," observed Miss Stivergill, entering her bedroom, in which Miss Lillycrop usually occupied a chair bed when on a visit to The Rosebud. "But what would you do if they did get in?" asked Miss Lillycrop, in some anxiety, for she had a very strong personal fear of burglars. "Oh! I have several little plans for their reception," replied the lady, with a quiet smile.
When I heard of the treasure she's so foolish as to keep on her sideboard, I felt sure that your father had made up his mind to rob Miss Stivergill with the help of that bad man Bill Stiggs all the more w'en I see how your father jumped w'en I mentioned Rosebud Cottage. Now, Tottie, we must save your father.
I hope I shan't be the last," returned Pax languidly, for he was still weak from the effects of the partial roasting and suffocation he had undergone. "Miss Lillycrop desired me to come and see you," resumed Miss Stivergill. "She has told me how bravely you tried to rescue poor little Bones, who " "Not much hurt, I hope?" asked the boy eagerly. "No, very little scarcely at all, I'm glad to say.
Miss Lillycrop sat bolt up in her bed, transfixed with horror, and could dimly see her friend spring from her couch and dart across the room like a ghostly phantom. "Lilly, if you scream," said Miss Stivergill, in a voice so low and stern that it caused her blood to curdle, "I'll do something awful to you. Get up!" The command was peremptory. Miss Lillycrop obeyed.
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