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Miss Crosbie was certainly surprised; she did not expect that her present could have made the little girl feel so much. She spoke very kindly to her, put her arms round her, kissed her several times, and said: "But, my dear, a bonnet and a tippet are not worthy of such deep gratitude; you make me ashamed that I have done so little for you." "But you are so good, ma'am, so very good!" sobbed Lucy.

I have gone over their calculations and detected several flaws in them, which, when corrected, show a very different result namely, that in seventeen or eighteen years from this time there will not be an ounce of coal in the kingdom!" Mr Tippet paused to observe the effect of this statement.

"Tut, nonsense!" exclaimed the Eagle, panting as well from nervous excitement as exhaustion; "you are always so fussy, Emelina. Please assist me to tie this string, Miss Ward." "Yes, I know I'm fussy, dear Julia!" exclaimed Miss Tippet, bustling nervously about the room; "but I can't help it, and I'm so thankful for ; but it was so bold in these noble fellows to risk their lives to "

"Well, I was told he lived here," he muttered, again consulting the note. "Here, let me look," said Barret, taking the note from the boy. "This is Tippet, not Tupper. He lives in the top floor. By the way, Auberly," said Barret, glancing over his shoulder, "Isn't Tom Tippet a sort of connection of yours?"

"You're so particular, dear Julia," replied Miss Tippet with a little sigh; "a what's-'is-n-, a protege, you know." "Indeed," said Miss Deemas, regarding Willie with a severe frown, as if in her estimation all proteges were necessarily villains. "Yes, dear Julia, and, would you believe it, that this boy's brother-in-law " "Brother, ma'am," interrupted Willie.

Going up to Miss Tippet, she put a hand on each of her shoulders, and stooping down, pecked her, so to speak, on each cheek. "How are you, my dear?" said Miss Deemas, not by any means tenderly; but much in the tone in which one would expect to have one's money or one's life demanded. "Quite well, dear Julia, and so glad to see you.

But Mrs Willders did not know of the before-mentioned happy facility which her kinsman possessed of forgetting poor relations; so, after wondering on for a time, she ceased to wonder or to think about it at all. Miss Emelina Tippet was a maiden lady of pleasing countenance and exceedingly uncertain age.

So Lucy had her little scarlet flannel dressing gown on, and her shoes and stockings, and a wonderful old knitted hood with a tippet to it, and then she was rolled round and round in all her bed-clothes, and Mrs. Bunker took her up like a very big baby, not letting any one else touch her. How Mrs.

No, upon my word, the world is turned upside down; what is the use of making a Revolution? Dine twice a day if you can afford it, you scamps of rich folk! But laws are no good, I tell you, and nothing will be safe if Louis-Philippe does not keep people in their places; for, after all, if we are all equal, eh, sir? a housemaid didn't ought to have a velvet tippet, while I, Mme.

The room was strongly illuminated; but it contained little furniture except a heavy table and a chair or two; the hearth was innocent of fire, and the pavement was but sparsely strewn with rushes clearly many days old. On a high chair beside the chimney, and directly facing Denis as he entered, sat a little old gentleman in a fur tippet.