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He did not feel called upon to help this girl. Tode considered girls entirely unnecessary evils. Nan looked disappointed, but she said no more. "He's wakin' up, I guess," remarked Tode, glancing at the baby. The little thing stirred uneasily, and then the heavy, blue-veined lids were lifted slowly, and a pair of big innocent blue eyes looked straight into Tode's.
"I don't know anything what you're talking about," was Tode's answer, more truthful than grammatical. "Why, give your heart to him, you know, and love him, and pray, and all that. But, Tode, won't you run around to Martyn's and order the carriage for us? John was to wait there until we came, and I guess he'll think we are never coming." Mrs.
What Tode didn't do during those three days' tarry in New York could be told almost better than what he did. No country novice visiting the great city for the first time could have begun to crowd in the sights and scenes that revealed themselves to Tode's eager, wide-open eyes, in the same space of time.
Tode's ears were as sharp as a ferret's and his brain was as quick as his ears. He knew well enough what the doctor was doing but he made no sign. Were not the bishop's words ringing in his ears? "If the poor child is deaf and dumb I shall certainly keep him here until I can find a better home for him." There were few things at which the boy would have hesitated to ensure his staying there.
Mark's with a vague hope that he might see again the man who seemed to his boyish imagination a very king among men. It had long been Tode's secret ambition to grow into a big, strong man himself bigger and stronger than the common run of men. Now, whenever he thought about it, he said to himself, "Just like the bishop."
Tode's face flushed a little as he changed his seat, but now another of the boys, having a grudge against Dick, cried out, "Hunt stuck a pin in him first; I seen him do it." "You hush up!" muttered Dick, with a scowl. Just then the superintendent's bell sounded and the lesson time was over. When the school was dismissed, Mr. Scott detained Tode.
"Yes, sir," Tode answered, simply. "That is good. Do you know I think you have pleased him to-night? You have done what you could to right the wrong, and done it for his sake." And now Tode's eye shone with pleasure. After a moment's silence he asked: "What are you going to do with me, sir?" "Do with you? I am going to be much obliged to you for returning my property."
Birge announced his text, reading it from that same great book, and Tode's heart fluttered with delighted expectation as he heard the words, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." The very name! and of all news this, that he passes by. Oh, Tode wanted so to see him, to hear about him. He sat erect, and his dark cheek flushed with excitement as he listened eagerly to every word.
The train halted now and again at a station, and a few sleepy people stumbled off, and a few wide-awake ones came on, but still seats were comparatively plenty and no one disturbed the fur cloak. In the course of time Tode's sleep grew less sound; he twisted around as much as his limits would allow, and punched an imaginary bed-fellow with his elbow, muttering meanwhile: "Keep still now.
The red-headed boy was the bigger and stronger of the two and plucky as Tode was, he would have been severely treated had not the affair been ended by the appearance of a policeman who speedily separated the combatants. "What's all this row about?" he demanded, sharply, as he looked from Tode's bleeding face to the big fellow's bruised eye. "He took my beat.
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