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Not until he had reached the next corner and then more as a soliloquy than as information to the street did Tibb's boy recover sufficient interest in his own affairs to remark that he was her bee. The voluble young lady herself, following some half-a-dozen yards behind, forgot her wrongs in contemplation of the stranger's back.
'I think, says he, when all was done, 'I smell fresh meat still. 'It's sleepy you are, says she; 'go to bed. 'When will you marry me? says the giant. 'You're putting me off too long. 'St. Tibb's Eve, says she. 'I wish I knew how far off that is, says he; and he fell asleep, with his head in the dish.
Mysie made no answer, but began to knead dough for wastel-cake with all despatch, observing that Sir Piercie had partaken of that dainty, and commended it upon the preceding day. And presently, in order to place on the fire the girdle, or iron plate on which these cates were to be baked, she displaced a stew-pan in which one of Tibb's delicacies were submitted to the action of the kitchen fire.
Poor little face, distorted with terror and agony! One of the policemen recognised it as the child of the public-house in Tibb's Alley. There were moans, but no one dared to uncover the limbs; and the policeman and Mr. Hope proposed carrying it at once to Mr. Bowles, and then home. Mr. Kendal desired that it should be laid on the seat of the carriage, which he would drive gently to the doctor's.
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