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So we laid the puppets by, fed Toby with brown bread and tongue, and rested against the labours of the afternoon. The time passed quickly enough too quickly. It was a few minutes past one when, having adjusted my mask and slid my nose into position, I got the booth upon my shoulders and stepped out into the road. "Come along," I said encouragingly. "I'm afraid. Oh, there's something coming."
She's pretty and stylish and and much more in your line than I am. Why don't you go and ask her to marry you? She wouldn't say No." She flung the words with a little quivering laugh. She was trembling in his hold. Bunny's eyes had flashed to sudden anger. He had taken her by the shoulders almost as if he would shake her. "Toby, be quiet!" he commanded. "Do you hear? You're going too far!
So at last Toby had his way, and they walked about the streets for an hour, until it was long past the time when Sally should have been in bed. Only then did they part, and Sally was half-undressed when she heard Toby passing upon his way upstairs. Her cheeks were burning, her eyes shining, her heart exultant.
"The fellers all say I don't amount to anything," sobbed Toby, "an' Uncle Dan'l says I don't, an' I s'pose they know; but I tell you I feel just as bad, now that I'm goin' away from them all, as if I was as good as any of them." At this moment Toby saw Mr. Lord enter the tent, and he knew that the summons to start was about to be given.
They were all very silent as she turned the photographs over and there were no sounds but the sharp crackling of the fire as it burst into little spurts of flame, the noise that her hand made on the silk of her dress as she turned each picture and the little mutterings of Robin in his corner as he talked to his Toby. Peter had never seen anything like this photography.
He had no heart for the work, and, after telling the boys that Abner was sick again, proposed to postpone operations until he should get better; but they insisted that as they were so near the house, it would be as well to go on with the work as to remain idle, and Toby could offer no argument to the contrary.
Jacobs, after scolding poor little Toby to his heart's content, vowed that the amount should be kept from his first week's wages, and then handed back the coin, with orders to give it to the first man who gave him money to change, under the penalty of a severe flogging if he failed to do so.
Did you not then dread to look behind you as you drew close to your companions, and became almost breathless with painful interest in the story? Solemn feeling prevailed among Simon's guests, as Toby Tunk, the fat coachman, who had been relating his experience in ghosts uttered the following words: 'Well, I was sitting by the coffin, looking at the corpse, when the door slowly opened, and
Nothing that might have served as food would have been rejected by them or have been repugnant to them, but no morsel could they find. It was on the morning of the third day of their famine, when hunger pangs were the keenest, that Toby announced: "I been prayin' the Lard to send the ice, and telling He how we wants to get away from here but don't know how until ice comes.
Needles were more adroitly used; the light improved; a general air of contentment arose. Sally no longer thought of Toby, or of Gaga. She was making a dream for herself, out of a motor car she had seen, and a handsome soldier, and the way a commissionaire had stepped out of her way. She needed few materials for her dream, and was a fine lady for the rest of the afternoon.
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