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Updated: May 20, 2025
'You never mean to say, pursued Dot, sitting on the floor and shaking her head at him, 'that it's Gruff and Tackleton the toymaker! John nodded. Mrs. Peerybingle nodded also, fifty times at least.
They were so gentle and kind-looking that Martin was not a bit afraid and asked them at once to tell him the way to the Wonderful Toymaker who makes all the toys for Fairyland. They were delighted to tell him all they knew, for it was their one secret and they were very proud of it; and so few people ever came that way that they had very few opportunities of telling it.
"And to think that my back aches, that I have pricked myself so," she exclaimed, showing the scarred tips of her fingers, "for the sake of a toymaker from Germany! But it is not like you, Henri, to disturb yourself so for anything less than a prince." Henri, who was a sleek and handsome man, with black moustache and imperial, shook his head sadly.
No longer can I hope for any privacy in this country. You see you see, Marguerite? He has written of me openly. 'The Toymaker from Leipzig! that is what he has called me! These two, Kendricks and he, they saw through me from the first. They knew what it was that I desired. Damn them!" Mademoiselle crossed herself instinctively. Once she had been religious. "Poor Sir Julien!"
Silver accepted her offer of a chair with an air of demure shyness, and sitting on its edge stared at her rather hard. He looked neat and dapper in his Bond Street kit, and for a man who had started life as a Whitechapel toymaker, his manners were inoffensive.
"You've got to admit that if they could send Zeps and submarines and things to the North Pole and cop all the steel, the British navy, and ourrs too, would be floppin' around the ocean like a chicken with its head cut off. It's a good idea!" Tom went up to the old toymaker, who greeted them with a smile, seeming no more surprised to see them than he had been the day before.
It made the Princess Petulant feel sleepy; but Martin gave a shout of pleasure when it stopped spinning. "I like that one much better," he said. "It is the finest toy I have ever made," said the Wonderful Toymaker; "and it is yours because you know how to appreciate it. Now, we will play games!"
"I do, and I have every reason to say so." "Oh, nonsense!" Garvington began to write again. "Silver was Pine's secretary, and now he's Miss Greeby's. They wouldn't have engaged him unless he was respectable, although he did start life as a pauper toymaker. I suppose that is what you mean, Agnes. I'm surprised at your narrowness." "Ah, we have not all your tolerance, Freddy.
Then, suddenly, into the middle of it all stepped the Wonderful Toymaker.
Immediately, they were pelted from all sides by the most delicious, unwholesome sweets that were ever made; but, although they were ever so unwholesome, and although the children ate quantities and quantities of them, they were not in the least bit the worse for it; and when they had eaten all they could, the Wonderful Toymaker filled their pockets for them, and laughed again.
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