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'No, Sir, said Toodle, turning his oilskin cap round and round; 'we're a doin' pretty well, Sir; we haven't no cause to complain in the worldly way, Sir. We've had four more since then, Sir, but we rubs on.
And yet, Miss Tox, as it appeared, forgot him gradually forgot him. She began to forget him soon after her discovery of the Toodle family. She continued to forget him up to the time of the christening. She went on forgetting him with compound interest after that. Something or somebody had superseded him as a source of interest.
Rob, overhearing her, called up a look, to justify the eulogium, but it was hardly the right look. 'And now, Mrs Richards, said Miss Tox, 'and you too, Sir, addressing Toodle 'I'll tell you, plainly and truly, what I have come here for.
This ceremony, and a little attendant gossip, prolonged the time until after their usual hour of going to bed, and detained Miss Tox at the Toodle fireside until it was too late for her to walk home alone.
'And yet, said Mr Dombey, 'you are two or three and thirty, I suppose? 'Thereabouts, I suppose, Sir, answered Toodle, after more reflection 'Then why don't you learn? asked Mr Dombey. 'So I'm a going to, Sir. One of my little boys is a going to learn me, when he's old enough, and been to school himself. 'You heard what I said to your wife just now?
Mr Toodle, who had not the faintest idea of what Miss Tox was talking about, expressed that also, in a stare. 'Of course, said Miss Tox, 'how our little coolness has arisen is of no moment, and does not require to be discussed.
'I suppose, said Mr Toodle, relishing his meal infinitely, 'as our Biler is a doin' now about as well as a boy can do, eh, Polly? 'Oh! he's a doing beautiful! responded Polly. 'He ain't got to be at all secret-like has he, Polly? inquired Mr Toodle. 'No! said Mrs Toodle, plumply.
Uncle Wiggily started off through the woods to look for one of the Bushytail chaps, while Grandpa Goosey stayed near the tree, to catch the hat in case it should happen to fall by itself. All of a sudden Uncle Wiggily heard some one coming along whistling, and then he heard a loud pounding sound, and next he saw Toodle Flat-tail, the beaver boy, walking in the woods. "Oh, Toodle!
The bargain was ratified on the spot; and Miss Tox found herself so much at home already, that without delay she instituted a preliminary examination of the children all round which Mr Toodle much admired and booked their ages, names, and acquirements, on a piece of paper.
Mr Dombey looked at him, in return for his tone of interest, as if a man like that would make his very eyesight dirty. ''Scuse the liberty, Sir, said Toodle, seeing he was not clearly remembered, 'but my wife Polly, as was called Richards in your family
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