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And that lady, so far from resenting the look as an affront, met her in a liberal spirit; not only admitted that what Mrs Tods had said was equally just and true, but even turned her eyes upward with a look of resignation. Well was it for Mrs Pods that she did so, for her resigned eyes beheld the globe of the cabin lamp pitched off its perch by a violent lurch and coming straight at her.
They named him 'Carlo, and in a quiet manner established him as the favourite creature of their play. And thus, by degrees, and as time went on, their grief for the loss of the Tods abated somewhat; and at last they began to talk about them to each other, which was a sure sign that their feelings were softened. "But you will never guess what turn their conversation took.
Presently, the Legal Member, talking "shop," to the Head of a Department, mentioned his Bill by its full name "The Sub-Montane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment." Tods caught the one native word, and lifting up his small voice said: "Oh, I know ALL about that! Has it been murramutted yet, Councillor Sahib?" "How much?" said the Legal Member. "Murramutted mended.
They had talked enough of Becket and the Tods to produce the impression on Flora's mind that one day or another two young people would arrive in her house on a visit; but she had begun a poem called 'Dionysus at the Well, and Felix himself had plunged into a satiric allegory entitled 'The Last of the Laborers. Nedda, therefore, walked alone; but at her side went always an invisible companion.
We are not young men who take these lands, but old ones not farmers, but tradesmen with a little money and for fifteen years we shall have peace. Nor are we children that the Sirkar should treat us so." Here Tods stopped short, for the whole table were listening. The Legal Member said to Tods, 'Is that all? 'All I can remember, said Tods. 'But you should see Ditta Mull's big monkey.
He made inquiries, always bearing in mind the fact that the real native not the hybrid, University-trained mule is as timid as a colt, and little by little, he coaxed some of the men whom the measure concerned most intimately to give in their views, which squared very closely with Tods' evidence.
I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi' a hairy skin on't.
'See the miseries of having a family! said Tods' father, giving Tods three prunes, some water in a glass that had been used for claret, and telling him to sit still. Tods sucked the prunes slowly, knowing that he would have to go when they were finished, and sipped the pink water like a man of the world, as he listened to the conversation.
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