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You could hardly be off hearing of it somehow, Sir, said Toodle, again addressing Mr Dombey individually; 'and it's better I should out and say my boy's gone rather wrong. Polly's dreadful down about it, genelmen, said Toodle with the same dejected look, and another appeal to the Major. 'A son of this man's whom I caused to be educated, Major, said Mr Dombey, giving him his arm.
'Polly heerd it, said Toodle, jerking his hat over his shoulder in the direction of the door, with an air of perfect confidence in his better half. 'It's all right. 'But I ask you if you heard it. You did, I suppose, and understood it? pursued Mr Dombey.
At last, after much fruitless inquiry, Walter, followed by the coach and Susan, found a man who had once resided in that vanished land, and who was no other than the master sweep before referred to, grown stout, and knocking a double knock at his own door. He knowed Toodle, he said, well. Belonged to the Railroad, didn't he? 'Yes' sir, yes! cried Susan Nipper from the coach window.
"Oh my little girl she lives in the town," chanted Lightfoot, and the fly bunch, catching the contagion, joined promptly in on the refrain: "A toodle link, a toodle link, a too oo-dle a day!" At this sudden and suggestive outbreak Jeff Creede surveyed Bill Lightfoot coldly and puffed on his cigarette. Bill was always trying to make trouble. "And every time I see 'er, she asts me f'r a gown,"
The indisputable proof afforded in these hints, and in the Grinder's mysterious manner, of his not being subject to that failing which Mr Toodle had, by implication, attributed to him, might have led to a renewal of his wrongs, and of the sensation in the family, but for the opportune arrival of another visitor, who, to Polly's great surprise, appeared at the door, smiling patronage and friendship on all there.
'Beg your pardon, Sir, resumed Toodle, taking a step before them and deferentially stopping them again, still cap in hand: 'I wouldn't have troubled you with such a pint except as a way of gettin' in the name of my son Biler christened Robin him as you was so good as to make a Charitable Grinder on. 'Well, man, said Mr Dombey in his severest manner. 'What about him?
After shaking hands with Mr Toodle and Polly, and kissing all the children, Miss Tox left the house, therefore, with unlimited popularity, and carrying away with her so light a heart that it might have given Mrs Chick offence if that good lady could have weighed it.
There was my mother But catching his wife's eye here, Mr Toodle judiciously buried the rest in another mug of tea. 'You never mean to say, Mrs Richards, cried Miss Tox, looking at Rob, 'that that is your 'Eldest, Ma'am, said Polly. 'Yes, indeed, it is. That's the little fellow, Ma'am, that was the innocent cause of so much.
His eyes closed in a sort of intoxication of pleasure, but he saw all that went on in some miraculous way. "First lady lead to the right toodle rum rum! Four hands round " The boys were immensely pleased with him. They delighted in his antics rather than in his tunes, which were exceedingly few and simple.
Oh, what fun we are having, aren't we?" "It's Toodle and Noodle my two beaver grandsons," said Grandpa Whackum. "I wonder if they could have taken your butter? Come; we'll find out." They went softly over behind a clump of bushes and there they saw Toodle and Noodle sliding down the slanting log of a tree, that was like a little hill, only there was no snow on it.
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