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With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her own bed, sweeping and dusting her own chamber, which she had hitherto done, in utter scorn of all offers of help from the chambermaid of the establishment, to condemn herself to the martyrdom of instructing Topsy to perform these operations, ah, woe the day!
"Then why not invent a name? Call her 'Poppet, or 'Topsy, or 'Fifine, or 'Rosie, or 'Gracie. Why, I could supply you with fifty or sixty names on the spot. But this is all idle trifling. Go on and tell me more. Give a full and complete account of yourself and your 'own one." "Well, you know, I'm doing business in Barcelona, and we were engaged to be married last year."
And I'm like her. I care for decorum too much to get the brain to act on Colney's behaviour; but I see it enraptures him and may be comprehensible to the topsy- turvy. Victor rubbed hands. It was he who filled Colney's bag of satiric spite.
She seemed confused and flushed a little. "Mary Ann!" she murmured. "Merely Mary Ann?" "Yessir." He smiled. "Seems a sort of white Topsy," he was thinking. She stood still, holding in her hand the table-cloth she had just folded. Her eyes were downcast, and the glint of sunshine had leapt upon the long lashes. "Well, Mary Ann, tell your mistress there is a piano coming.
Uncle Life, aged seventy and small and spherical, solved the problem of the hills by sitting down and sliding. She commended the method to me, saying that it served very well on week days, but was lamentably detrimental to her Sunday best. Ananias is developing fast and bids fair to rival Topsy. He has a mania for eating anything and everything, and what he cannot eat, he destroys.
I admire and respect our methods far more than yours, which just 'growed' like Topsy!" "But cynicism and truth are, unfortunately, synonymous. Only you are too young, and ought not to know anything about either!" "I like to know and do things I ought not to!" Her eyes were merry. "Tell me some more about your countrywomen.
"La, there an't any such thing as truth in that limb," said Rosa, looking indignantly at Topsy. "If I was Mas'r St. Clare, I'd whip her till the blood run. I would, I'd let her catch it!" "No, no Rosa," said Eva, with an air of command, which the child could assume at times; "you mustn't talk so, Rosa. I can't bear to hear it." "La sakes!
Perhaps she has gone fast asleep somewhere and doesn't hear you call," said mamma. So Alice began to search for her pet, but though she looked everywhere no kitty did she find. She called and called again, but all in vain; no Topsy answered her. "Never mind, little daughter," said mamma, "kitty has probably gone off hunting and will surprise you by and by with a big fat mouse."
One would think you had taken lessons of the Jews, coming at a fellow so!" "I want to make sure of it," said Miss Ophelia. "You may die, or fail, and then Topsy be hustled off to auction, spite of all I can do." "Really, you are quite provident. Well, seeing I'm in the hands of a Yankee, there is nothing for it but to concede;" and St.
Topsy did not stop to knock, but gave a big spring and landed right in the middle of the babies' bed. Then she took one of the babies right in her mouth by the loose skin at the back of its neck, jumped out of the barrel, and ran home as fast as she could. She laid the stolen kitten softly down on her own bed, and began to wash it all over with her funny rough tongue.
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