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The Deacon then repeated a short piece of poetry, his wife followed, and then all the children one after another, even down to Bob a little three-year-old, who just managed to lisp out, with a charming mixture of pride and bashfulness, Jesus, tender Seperd, Has' thou died faw me, Make me vewy fwankful In my heart to thee.
"Ocken Hawwy, I wants my dolly's k'adle, tause my dolly's in it, an' I want to shee her;" thus spake Toddie. "Don't you think the Lord loved my papa awful much for doin' that sweet thing, Uncle Harry?" asked Budge. "Yes, old fellow, I feel sure that he did." "Lord lovesh my papa vewy much, so I love ze Lord vewy much," remarked Toddie. "An' I wants my dolly's k'adle an' my dolly."
"It's a vewy bad fing to be boiled in oil," reiterated The Seraph suavely, "thirty-nine of 'em there was for the captain was stabbed alweady boilin' away in oil. Their ears was full of it." Mrs. Handsomebody gripped the arms of her chair, and leaned towards him. "Alexander, I have never known a child of such tender years to possess so unquenchable a lust for frightfulness.
On the contrary, when the checked trousers remarked in passing that it was "vewy disagweeable weather," he felt constrained to admit, civilly enough, that it was. The two fops had a friend with them who was not a fop, but a plain, practical-looking man, with a forbidding countenance, and a large, tall, powerful frame.
She stalked up towards him, something in the style of a spectre in a romance, which she was not very unlike; and as she advanced, he retreated, until he got the table between him and this most unwelcome apparition. "I am come," said the dowager, with an ominous tone of voice. "Vewy happy of the hono', I am sure, Mistwess O'Gwady," faltered Furlong. "The avenger has come." Furlong opened his eyes.
"You mean to say that I am a brick aw good, dooced good; I must tell that at the club dooced clevah; couldn't do much bettah meself, doncherknow? Now, if you will kindly rise from your seat aw I will point out a vewy interesting mountain peak." "Thank you, I can see well enough without rising."
Lady Norton evewybody please excuse me for running away, but Miss Saville is my vewy deawest fwiend, and I have not seen her for four whole years, so I really must take possession of her at once."
You still use big words, I hear, and are vewy, vewy dignified when any one ventures to contwadict you, but not too dignified to pass your neighbour salt instead of sugar, or to pretend to arrange a fwiend's sash, and then tie it in such a way that the poor thing dwagged her chair with her when she twied to rise. Not too dignified to play your old twicks still, Peggy Saville."
"I call that vewy wough," said Braintree, looking and feeling a little uncomfortable. "Oh, it's only the ground swell," said Gayford; "we shall soon get out of that. Here, Bowler, old man, take an oar with Tubbs, and keep way on while I stick up the sail. Look alive!" With some difficulty the oars were got out, and Tubbs made to comprehend what was expected of him.
Ephraim was talking with Fanny, as he generally does, and there was that "hawid" creature Mr Parmenter, with his drawl and his eyeglass and all the rest of it. "Indeed, it is very trying!" he was saying, as I came in; but he never sounds an r, so that he said, "vewy twying." I don't know whether it is that he can't, or that he won't.
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