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'Thank God! cried Trotty, holding up his folded hands. 'O, God be thanked! She loves her child!
Neither, worst of all, did it prevent him from dogmatising anywhere and everywhere about the past, of which he knew nothing; it did not prevent him from telling the bells to tell Trotty Veck that the Middle Ages were a failure, nor from solemnly declaring that the best thing that the mediæval monks ever did was to create the mean and snobbish quietude of a modern cathedral city.
Directly after which the Reader, having casually mentioned the circumstance of their just then striking twelve at noon, gave utterance to Trotty Yeck's ejaculatory reflection: "Dinner-time, eh? Ah! There's nothing more regular in its coming round than dinner-time, and there's nothing less regular in its coming round than dinner."
Trotty sprang up from her stool, overturning babe and cradle. "Not to-day, darling. Besides, why are you here? You know I've forbidden you to be on the front verandah when the patients come. Run away to the back, and play there." Mary donned hat and shawl, opened her parasol and went out into the sun.
Then, though Purdy jumped to his feet and the laughter died out as if by command, he drew his brows together, and without saying a word, stalked into the surgery and shut the door. Like a schoolboy who has been caned, Purdy dug his knuckles into his eyes and rubbed his hindquarters to the fresh delight of Trotty and the girl. "Well, so long, Polly! I'd better be making tracks.
'What visitor is this! it said. The voice was low and deep, and Trotty fancied that it sounded in the other figures as well. 'I thought my name was called by the Chimes! said Trotty, raising his hands in an attitude of supplication. 'I hardly know why I am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often.
'Yes, sir, said Trotty, leaving it behind him in a corner. 'Don't leave it there, exclaimed the gentleman. 'Bring it here, bring it here. So! This is your dinner, is it? 'Yes, sir, repeated Trotty, looking with a fixed eye and a watery mouth, at the piece of tripe he had reserved for a last delicious tit-bit; which the gentleman was now turning over and over on the end of the fork.
He's put the dear child's bonnet on the kettle, and hung the lid behind the door! 'I didn't go for to do it, my love, said Trotty, hastily repairing this mistake. 'Meg, my dear? Meg looked towards him and saw that he had elaborately stationed himself behind the chair of their male visitor, where with many mysterious gestures he was holding up the sixpence he had earned.
'I hope not, sir, said Trotty, faintly. 'I'd sooner die of want! 'Divide the amount of tripe before-mentioned, Alderman, said Mr. Filer, 'by the estimated number of existing widows and orphans, and the result will be one pennyweight of tripe to each. Not a grain is left for that man. Consequently, he's a robber.
Fish was sealing it, 'as if this were Ordained: really. At the close of the year, I wind up my account and strike my balance, even with William Fern! Trotty, who had long ago relapsed, and was very low-spirited, stepped forward with a rueful face to take the letter. 'With my compliments and thanks, said Sir Joseph. 'Stop! 'Stop! echoed Mr. Fish.
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