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He was also expected to do the farmwork and other jobs, as well as the chores in and about the house. This included tending to the baby the good wives uniting to pronounce Abe the best of helps as "so handy," as Mrs. Toodles would say. He had attained his fixed height, exactly six feet three inches.
The Assistant Commissioner gave him an unsmiling glance. Till they came to the door of the great man’s room, Toodles preserved a scandalised and solemn silence, as though he were offended with the Assistant Commissioner for exposing such an unsavoury and disturbing fact. It revolutionised his idea of the Explorers’ Club’s extreme selectness, of its social purity.
But why are you so foolish? 'How do you mean? I asked; and he answered, 'Why don't you get a rich sweetheart? Then I could pay you sixty. That's what a girl hears on the stage!" "I don't understand," said Montague, perplexed. "Did he mean he could get money out of the man?" "Not directly," said Toodles; "but tickets and advertising.
'Since you have introduced the mention of her, and have connected me with her and have said that I know all about her, I shall make bold to amend the toast. So here's to Dombey and Son and Daughter! Paul's Progress and Christening Little Paul, suffering no contamination from the blood of the Toodles, grew stouter and stronger every day.
She intimated that it would take a good deal of washing to get Sarah off her hands. Sarah had unveiled the face of horror, the face of outraged virtue, and the wrath and writhing of propriety wounded in the uncertain, quivering, vital spot. During the unveiling Dick Ransome had come in. He wanted to know if Topsy had been bullying poor Toodles.
They went up Broadway, and from a group of people coming out of another stage-entrance a young girl came to join them an airy little creature with the face of a doll-baby, and a big hat with a purple feather on top. This was "Toodles" otherwise known as Helen Gwynne; and she took Montague's arm, and they fell in behind Oliver and his companion.
Toodles could conceive a want for such as broken pots, dog-irons, fenders, saws, toasters, stew-pans, old muskets, boxing-gloves and foils, and sundry other odds and ends too numerous to mention.
Montague wondered what one said to a chorus-girl on the way to supper. Afterward his brother told him that Toodles had been the wife of a real-estate agent in a little town in Oklahoma, and had run away from respectability and boredom with a travelling theatrical company. Now she was tripping her part in the musical comedy which Montague had seen at Mrs.
It’s his nerves that I am afraid of. The reactionary gang, with that abusive brute Cheeseman at their head, insult him every night.” “If he will insist on beginning a revolution!” murmured the Assistant Commissioner. “The time has come, and he is the only man great enough for the work,” protested the revolutionary Toodles, flaring up under the calm, speculative gaze of the Assistant Commissioner.
Toodles and as Aminadab Sleek in The Serious Family, and we must have admired him very much his huge fat person, his huge fat face and his vast slightly pendulous cheek, surmounted by a sort of elephantine wink, to which I impute a remarkable baseness, being still perfectly present to me. We discriminated, none the less; we thought Mr.
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