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"And the sooner the better, I think." "Poor people," said Mr. Tetterby, "ought not to have children at all. They give US no pleasure." He was at that moment taking up the cup which Mrs. Tetterby had rudely pushed towards him, and Mrs. Tetterby was lifting her own cup to her lips, when they both stopped, as if they were transfixed. "Here! Mother! Father!" cried Johnny, running into the room.
Tetterby themselves were not more altered than their offspring. But they were fighting now, not only for the soap and water, but even for the breakfast which was yet in perspective. The hand of every little Tetterby was against the other little Tetterbys; and even Johnny's hand the patient, much-enduring, and devoted Johnny rose against the baby! Yes, Mrs.
"I fear that my coming in unperceived," returned the visitor, "has alarmed you; but you were talking and did not hear me." "My little woman says perhaps you heard her say it," returned Mr. Tetterby, "that it's not the first time you have alarmed her to- night." "I am sorry for it. I remember to have observed her, for a few moments only, in the street. I had no intention of frightening her."
Tetterby had been two feet high, she could not have felt it more appropriately her due. "But you see, 'Dolphus," said Mrs. Tetterby, "this being Christmas- time, when all people who can, make holiday, and when all people who have got money, like to spend some, I did, somehow, get a little out of sorts when I was in the streets just now.
Tetterby, shaking the baby with an irritability hardly suited to so pious an aspiration, "what's the matter with her now?" Not being able to discover, and not rendering the subject much clearer by shaking it, Mrs. Tetterby put the baby away in a cradle, and, folding her arms, sat rocking it angrily with her foot. "How you stand there, 'Dolphus," said Mrs. Tetterby to her husband.
Tetterby had driven the whole herd out at the front door, that a moment's peace was secured; and even that was broken by the discovery that Johnny had surreptitiously come back, and was at that instant choking in the jug like a ventriloquist, in his indecent and rapacious haste. "These children will be the death of me at last!" said Mrs. Tetterby, after banishing the culprit.
I could have trodden on them. And I could think of nothing else, except our being poor, and the number of mouths there were at home." "Well, well, my dear," said Mr. Tetterby, shaking her hand encouragingly, "that's truth, after all. We ARE poor, and there ARE a number of mouths at home here."
"Am I a brute," said Mr. Tetterby, "or is there any good in me at all? Sophia! My little woman!" "'Dolphus dear," returned his wife. "I I've been in a state of mind," said Mr. Tetterby, "that I can't abear to think of, Sophy." "Oh! It's nothing to what I've been in, Dolf," cried his wife in a great burst of grief. "My Sophia," said Mr. Tetterby, "don't take on. I never shall forgive myself.
Isn't it enough, sir, that your brother 'Dolphus is toiling and moiling in the fog and cold, and you rolling in the lap of luxury with a with a baby, and everything you can wish for," said Mr. Tetterby, heaping this up as a great climax of blessings, "but must you make a wilderness of home, and maniacs of your parents? Must you, Johnny? Hey?" At each interrogation, Mr.
Tetterby sought upon his screen for a passage appropriate to be impressed upon his children's minds on the occasion, and read the following. "'It is an undoubted fact that all remarkable men have had remarkable mothers, and have respected them in after life as their best friends. Think of your own remarkable mother, my boys," said Mr. Tetterby, "and know her value while she is still among you!"
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