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How was it Tottie never came here as she promised? Is it to be some other time? Do think of Florence, if ever you feel chilly, and hear quantities about the Princess Royal's marriage, and want a change. I hate the thought of leaving Italy for one day more than I can help and satisfy my English predilections by newspapers and a book or two.
Yer Society, capting, has saved me an' Tottie fro' starvation, an' so I've come for to give ye back the money ye sent me by Mr Stuart, for there's many a poor widder as'll need it more nor I do." So saying, she placed the money on the table, and I thanked her heartily, adding that I was glad to be able to congratulate her on her recent good fortune.
I have no patience to recount our wrongs Come, Hans, let's go out and see what's doing; and don't forget, Liz, to have candles ready for the illumination, and tell the Tottie to clean my gun. I must be ready to do them honour, like other loyal subjects." The young men sallied forth and found that the Commissioners had been received by the authorities with sullen courtesy.
In this way Emmie and Tottie had become acquainted, and they were soon bosom friends, for the gentle, dark-eyed daughter of Mrs Gaff seemed to have been formed by nature as a harmonious counterpart to the volatile, fair-haired orphan. Emmie, I may here remark in passing, had by this time become a recognised inmate of Mr Stuart's house. What his intentions in regard to her were, no one knew.
Tottie could not gossip, but he could talk to her with his bright brown eyes, and do something to fill a great blank in her life. Tom's account of the scene in the hall made every one angry. "And yet," said Mrs. MacNaughton, "these Christians, who used to us such language as this, own as their Master one who taught that a mere angry word which wounded a neighbor should receive severe punishment!"
Tottie had expressed a wish that it might be hung opposite the new clock, in order that it might have something, as it were, to look at; but although the eyes looked straight out of the picture, they refused to look at the clock, and pertinaciously looked at living beings instead.
"But you'll sleep there to-night, I suppose?" asked Gildart, with more anxiety than the subject seemed to warrant. "Ay, no doubt o' that, for Mrs G and Tottie left this mornin', trustin' to my comin' down in the evenin'; but I can't get before nine o'clock." "Well, good-day to you," said Gildart; "I hope you'll enjoy yourself at Cove."
As Secretary to the Sailors' Home he frequently met me while I was going about in my capacity of honorary agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. Billy Gaff went to sea, and ultimately became captain of an East Indiaman, to his mother's unspeakable delight. Gaff and his wife and Tottie remained in the "Boodwar" for many years.
Tottie, who was now blotting the letter with an occasional tear, seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. While the meal was being prepared, Gaff fondled Tottie until she was restored to her wonted equanimity, so that after tea the task was resumed with spirit. Words and ideas seemed to flow more easily, and the letter was finally concluded, amid many sighs of relief, about bed-time.
"Well, what further objections, Lilly?" "Tottie has charge of a baby, and " "What! one baby in charge of another?" "Indeed it is too true; and, you know, you couldn't stand a baby." "Couldn't I?" said Miss Stivergill sharply. "How d'you know that? Let me see it."
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