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She was expected every moment. "More like a tadpole than anything," mused the unhappy father. "Oh! Mr. Stott, for goodness' sake, don't," cried the nurse. "If you only knew...." "Knew what?" questioned Stott, still staring at the motionless figure of his son, who lay with closed eyes, apparently unconscious.
She too had her correspondents, and her letters received or awaited. Tadpole said this; Lord Masque, on the contrary, said that: the truth lay perhaps between them; some result developed by the clear intelligence of Lady Firebrace acting on the data with which they supplied her. The duke listened with calm excitement to the transcendental revelations of his Egeria.
Just pull on your trousers, and take your jug and mine. Tadpole will show you the way."
After fidgeting with his shawls, he gave me an oblique scowl and asked me my age. "Twenty-four," I replied. "Sort of a tadpole, aren't you?" he said. As I took no offence, he repeated the remark. "Oh, come," said I, "there's no use in trying to irritate me. I see through you; a row acts like a cocktail on you but you'll have to stick to gruel in my company."
Each held a pure culture of Redfins, and I found that this was no accident, but aided and enforced by the tads themselves. The second time the attack was so persistent that the lesser tadpole leaped from the water, wriggled its way to a damp heap of leaves, and slipped down between them.
Thus the two girls were left very much to themselves, and were able to talk as they liked, only occasionally giving their attention to some newly-discovered wonder of Vernon's, a tadpole in the act of shedding his horny beak, or some gigantic development of the genus toadstool, which species was just then in full season.
And the great Jamaica debate that had been cooked so long, and the anxiously expected, yet almost despaired of, defection of the independent radical section, and the full-dressed visit to the palace that had gladdened the heart of Tadpole were they all to end in this? Was Conservatism, that mighty mystery of the nineteenth century was it after all to be brained by a fan!
It was far more real and effective as a romance than anything Disraeli had previously written. There are scenes and characters in the story which will live in English literature. Thackeray could hardly have created more living portraits than "Rigby," "Tadpole," and "Taper," or "Lord Monmouth." These are characters which are household words with us like "Lord Steyne" and "Rawdon Crawley."
Terms regularly settled beforehand. I have a note here all the facts." And Lady Firebrace twirled in her hand a bulletin from Mr Tadpole. "Lansdowne House is destined to cross me," said Lady St Julians with bitterness. "Well it is very provoking," said Lady Deloraine, "when you had made up your mind to ask them for Wednesday." "Yes, that alone is a sacrifice," said Lady St Julians.
The rudely drawn picture on the bowl figured in plate CXXXII, f, would be identified as a frog, save for the presence of a tail which would seem to refer it to the lizard kind. But in the evolution of the tadpole into the frog a tailed stage persists in the metamorphosis after the legs develop.
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