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"Very well, sir, I'll look well after 'im till she comes." Twitter was gone in a moment, and the old landlady returned to her lodger's room. There, to her surprise, she found Sammy up and hastily pulling on his boots. In truth he had been only shamming sleep, and, although still very drunk, was quite capable of looking after himself.
Giles was making desperate efforts to enter by a window which vomited fire and smoke that defied him. An upper window was thrown open, and Samuel Twitter appeared in his night-dress, shouting frantically. Stephen Welland saw that entrance or egress by lower window or staircase was impossible. He had been a noted athlete at school. There was an iron spout which ran from the street to the roof.
As a great artist, you of course know, as well as any one in the world, that this is the season which leads from the winter to the summer; but what I feel sure you don't know is the full charm of this transitory period, in which the whole forest awakens, in which the bushes sprout, and the young birds twitter in their nests!
It would have struck upon a sense of humor like a trivial twitter from the oboe trickling through a lull in the swell of brasses and strings; but Hiram Ranger had no sense of humor in that direction, had only his instinct for the right and the wrong. The falseness, the absence of the quality called "the real thing," made him bitter and sad.
All that summer he had fallen into the habit of waking at five o'clock, and not being able to doze off again. The narrowest bar of light on the ceiling, the earliest twitter of the sparrows was enough to strike him into full consciousness; and Mary was hard put to it to darken the room and ensure silence; and would be till the day came when he could knock off work and take a thorough holiday.
Though Manuel, the deceitful one, had no ailment, he did have a keen appreciation of the flavour of the cordial, and his medicine bottle was never long empty or full if he could help it. A moment later Jack, hearing a human, feminine twitter from the direction of the rose garden, left off examining pridefully his belongings, and bolted without apology, after his usual headlong fashion.
Hatty’s long ride from her grandmother’s, a distance of sixteen miles, and the excitement of her return home, made her sleep very soundly, when not disturbed, and she would gladly have continued her nap until the rousing bell gave forth its summons. Meg was something like the uneasy birds who twitter at midnight on their perches, and wake at dawn to sing, as if they never knew the need of rest.
"Well, if you do die, you'll be well out of it all," replied Ned, bitterly. "What's your name?" "Twitter," replied Sam, forgetting in his woe that he had not intended to reveal his real name. "Twitter Twitter. I've heard that name before. Why, yes. Father's name Samuel eh? Mother alive got cards with Mrs Samuel Twitter on 'em, an' no address?" "Yes yes.
I brooded. I was deeply moved. "Well, this means that we shall have to go down to Brinkley today. Aunt Dahlia is obviously all of a twitter, and my place is by her side. You had better pack this morning, and catch that 12.45 train with the luggage. I have a lunch engagement, so will follow in the car." "Very good, sir." I brooded some more.
In silent consternation the father descended to his bedroom and said, "Mariar, Sammy's gone!" "Dead!" exclaimed Mrs Twitter with a look of horror. "No, no; not dead, but gone gone out of the house. Did not sleep in it last night, apparently." Poor Mrs Twitter sank into a chair and gazed at her husband with a stricken face.
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