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She took a chair near the window, at the suggestion of Amelius. He knelt down so as to raise her foot to his knee. "Turn a little more towards the light," he said. He took the foot in his hand, lifted it, looked at it and suddenly let it drop back on the floor. A cry of alarm from Sally instantly brought Toff to the window. "Oh, look!" she cried; "he's ill!" Toff lifted Amelius to a chair.
"Sally persists in telling us she's in the way of his prospects in life and it's got somehow into her perverse little head that his prospects in life mean his marriage, and she's in the way of that. Hullo! are you going already?" "I want to go to Miss Sally, sir. I believe I can say something to comfort her. Do you think she will see me?" "Are you the man who has got the nickname of Toff?
Then, he remembered; he recovered himself; he put her gently away from him, and led her to the door of her room, and closed it on her in silence. For a little while, he waited alone. The interval over, he rang for Toff. "Do you think your wife would take Miss Sally as an apprentice?" he asked. Toff looked astonished. "Whatever you wish, sir, my wife will do.
There had been three separate carriages, and Toff was almost sure that the Italian lady had carried off more than she had brought with her, so exuberant had been the luggage. It was not long before Toff effected an entrance into the house, and brought away a report that very many things were missing.
Don't say a word about it to her yet, Toff, and don't look miserable. If I go away, I shall take you with me. Good night." Toff, with his handkerchief halfway to his eyes, recovered his native cheerfulness. "I am invariably sick at sea, sir," he said; "but, no matter, I will attend you to the uttermost ends of the earth."
After a little the "toff" dropped the accent of the Belgravian and began to speak in low, impassioned tones; he told one little story, and Jim found that he must cry or swear. With sorrow I must say that he did the latter, in order to bully the lump out of his bull throat.
Clump pulled over in his punt to the village, across the bay. When Juno heard Clump's report, her distress was very great. As she groaned, and wiped her wet, shrivelled eyes with a duster, she said "Lor' o' Marsy! Clump, ef harm's cum ter dem chiles ob Massa Tregellin den den you berry me berry dis ole 'ooman deep." "Now, toff your mout, June toff your mout!
Toff was a great deal too old a servant to be really turned away, and as she merely migrated from Manor Cross to Cross Hall, she did not injure herself much by refusing the offers made to her. It must be held that the Marquis was justified in getting rid of Mrs. Toff. Mrs. Toff was, in truth, a spy in his camp, and, of course, his own people were soon aware of that fact.
She came out from her room, walking delicately on her sore feet so fresh and charming, that Toff, absorbed in admiration, made a mistake in folding a napkin for the first time in his life. "Champagne, of course, sir?" he said in confidence to Amelius.
This showed itself in no diminution of affectionate attention; in no intentional change of manner; but there was a reticence about the Marquis and Popenjoy which even she perceived, and there crept into her mind a feeling that Mrs. Toff was on her guard against her, so that on two occasions she almost snubbed Mrs. Toff. "I never see'd him, my Lady; what more can I say?" said Mrs. Toff.
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