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Tottie insisted on hanging up his string of many-colored beads in the window to imitate the effect of the stained glass of the great church window. "It looks pretty when the light comes through," he remarked; and Elsie admitted that they might play they were painted windows, with some show of propriety.
"Well, I believe ye wouldn't; but it's common enough, ye must admit, for folk to marry a second time, an' so, many and many a long day I used to think p'raps Jess'll ha' found it hard to keep herself an' Tottie, an' mayhap she'll have married agin arter givin' me up for dead." "Never!" exclaimed Mrs Gaff energetically. "Well, forgive me for thinkin' it, lass.
"If you please, m'm, I can't eat any more," said Tottie. "Can't eat more, child? try," urged the hospitable lady. Tottie heaved a deep sigh and said that she couldn't eat another morsel if she were to try ever so much.
The man pulled himself together, and stared through the gloom. "Lumme!" he whispered. "A tottie! a tottie for Lushy!... Lemme cuddle ye, darlin, do." "I'm a midshipman," said the boy briefly. "Shut up; and behave yourself." The man tried to stand up, and swept off his hat. "Ow de do, sir? Ow de do? By all means ow de do? Lemme introjuice you all round. I'm Mr.
People constantly recover from what is called bad affection of the lungs. Can nothing be done for her?" "Nothing," replied Miss Lillycrop; "she will not leave her husband or her home. If she dies " "Well, what then?" "Little Tottie must be rescued, you know, and I have set my heart on doing it." "You'll do nothing of the sort," said Miss Stivergill firmly. Miss Lillycrop looked surprised.
There was no getting over this difficulty, so Mrs Gaff gave it up as an unsolvable riddle; but Tottie, who was fond of riddles, pondered the matter, and at length came to the conclusion that as Lord Nelson was a great man, it must be because of his greatness that he could look in two directions at the same moment.
Thus admonished, he spoke, without knowing why in a subdued voice. "You are surprised to see me, Tottie?" "I'm surprised at nothink, sir. 'Taint possible to surprise me with anythink in this life." "D'you expect to be surprised by anything in any other life, Tottie?" asked Aspel, more amused by the air of the child than by her answer. "P'r'aps. Don't much know, and don't much care," said Tottie.
"Well, I've come to ask something," said the youth, sitting down on a low box for the convenience of conversation, "and I hope, Tottie, that you'll tell me the truth. Here's a half-crown for you. The truth, mind, whether you think it will please me or not; I don't want to be pleased I want the truth."
The eyes which Sir Wilfrid had lately seen so full of pride were now alive with pleasure. Jacob Delafield, also, from behind, grinned applause or shouted to the babe, "Brava, Tottie; well done!" Three people, a baby, and a dog more intimately pleased with one another's society it would have been difficult to discover. "Sir Wilfrid!"
It was him as saved my life at least him and Mr Aspel, you know." "No, I don't know, Tot. Let's hear all about it," replied Mr Bones, with a look of unwonted gravity. Tottie went off at once into a glowing account of the fire and the rescue, to which her father listened with profound attention, not unmingled with surprise. Then he reverted to the aspect of the surrounding country.
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