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Honour me by reading that document." He handed a written paper to Amelius, dated some years since in Paris, and signed in an English name. "I testify with gratitude and pleasure that Theophile Leblond has nursed me through a long illness, with an intelligence and devotion which I cannot too highly praise." "May you never employ me, sir, in that capacity," said Toff.
I'm afraid I shall do it again, sir, if I don't get an answer to my next question my hands are itching to be at you, they are! When is Amelius expected back?" "Your question is positive, sir," said Toff, with dignity. "I am happy to be able to meet it with a positive reply. My master is expected back in three weeks' time."
The ever-ready Toff fetched a skewer from the kitchen, and picked the lock in two minutes. On lifting the cover, the box proved to be empty. The one person present who understood what this meant was Amelius. He remembered that Sally had taken her old threadbare clothes away with her in the box, when the angry landlady had insisted on his leaving the house.
From time to time Amelius, alone in the library, heard her dabbling in her bath, and humming the artless old English song from which she had taken her name. Once she knocked at the closed door, and made a request through it "There is scent on the table; may I have some?" And once Toff knocked at the other door, opening into the passage, and asked when "pretty young Miss" would be ready for supper.
Then he buttoned up her gloves over her little fat wrists and kissed her in several places where the veil ought to have been; and when he had informed her that "the Humming-bird was a regular toff," and had dismissed them both with his blessing, standing on the doorstep of the shop, he wheeled his bicycle out into the street, mounted it, and followed at the pace of a walking funeral until his parents had disappeared into the Parish Church.
I shall enjoy my bit of steak now; and I see a tater in the cinders. How are you getting on, old woman is it nearly done? Yer know I don't like all the goodness burnt out of it." "It isn't quite done yet, Jim; a few minutes more " Jim sniffed in eager anticipation, and then addressed himself to Esther. "Well, they seem to do yer pretty well down there. My word, what a toff yer are!
I have altered my opinion. He's such a glorious fellow so impulsive and so tender-hearted that he would be certain, in her present excited state, to do her more harm than good. Do you know if he is going to be married?" Toff, listening thus far in silent distress, suddenly looked up. "Why do you ask me, sir?" "It's an idle question, I dare say," old Pinfold remarked.
"Want to make a toff of me. Where's my clothes got to, I wonder?" A hasty search satisfied him that they were not in the room, and, pausing only to drape himself in the counterpane, he made his way into the next. He passed on to the others, and then, with a growing sense of alarm, stole softly downstairs and making his way to the shop continued the search.
I don't mind Miss Spicer so much; she's the music teacher. As to Miss Ravenscroft, I have never even seen her." "And who is she, darling?" "The head-mistress, and no end of a toff." "What's a toff, dear?" "It's a slang word they use in stupid old England." "I don't admire it, my love. Don't you demean yourself by bringing words of that sort home to Carrigrohane."
Jobson, fingering his bristly chin, stood: regarding the collection with a wan smile. "So that's their little game, is it?" he muttered. "Want to make a toff of me. Where's my clothes got to, I wonder?" A hasty search satisfied him that they were not in the room, and, pausing only to drape himself in the counterpane, he made his way into the next.
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