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"Weally, gentlemen," drawled Wyatt, looking at his watch, "I shall be fowced to leave you. I have an engagement at eleven, and I weally feah ouah Mr. Townshend will be, as I might say, hors de combat foh the night. I have to thawnk you fow a vewy agweeable evening, nevahtheless." He was carelessly sweeping the money into his pocket when Mitchell, his partner, checked him.
"Oh, Cicely, isn't it awful, I've just discovered that Nurse has been spending seven pounds a week on Baby's wibbons!" So she's given up war economy! 'Why not the "wibbons?" said Hester Martin, who had just come in and heard the tale. 'Because nobody gives up what they weally want to have, said Cicely promptly, with a more affected voice and accent than before.
"I never did see such a cweature weally." "He must have been an old friend of yours, Purt," said Reddy Butts. "Dogs don't follow folks for nothing." "But weally, I never saw him before," Purt tried to explain. "Aw, that's all very well," Billy Long sang out. "But it's plain enough why he followed you." "Why?" asked Reddy, willing to help the joke along.
"Then, if I may be permitted to ask," said Colonel Braddon, "what leads you to the Black Hills, Mr. Sprague?" "I thought I'd better see something of the country, you know. Besides, I had a bet with another feller about whether the hills were weally black, or not. I bet him a dozen bottles of champagne that they were not black, after all."
"O thunder and turf!" "FWASER!" says Bullwig. "O ah hum haw yes no why, that is weally no, weally, upon my weputation, I never before heard the name of the pewiodical. By the by, Sir John, what wemarkable good clawet this is; is it Lawose or Laff ?"
'Were you ever vewy much afwaid of the savages? she asked in her calm, dull childish voice. 'No never very much afraid. On the whole they're harmless they're not born yet, you can't feel really afraid of them. You know you can manage them. 'Do you weally? Aren't they very fierce? 'Not very. There aren't many fierce things, as a matter of fact.
"No, you cawnt!" retorted Thompson truculently. "Sit down, boys. Sit down, I say! These gentlemen are my friends. Anything you got to say? If there is, say it. And my name's Thompson, if you please." "Aw! what an extwemely wemahkable ahttitude!" Wyatt fixed his monocle on the offending miner with bland and exasperating condescension. "Weally, you quite intewest me, y' know!
This statement was received with a round of laughter, which seemed to surprise Mr. Sprague, who gazed with mild wonder at his companions, saying: "Weally, I can't see what you fellers are laughing at. I thought I'd better come myself, because the other feller might be color-blind, don't you know." Here Mr. Sprague rubbed his hands and looked about him to see if his joke was appreciated.
"Weally, Stawms," he squeaked, "if you've twapped the old curmudgeon you must stwip him for his last dime, don't y' know! I wemembah a song my governor used to sing; he said it was his motto. The song wan like this: "'When you catch a black cat, skin it, skin it! When you catch a black cat, skin it to the tail!
"All Tories are wicked," said Barbara, who had a Radical father, "except grandpapa, and he, mummy says, is weally a Riberal." With which she had leaped into the arms of her nurse, and was carried off gurgling, while the Bishop threatened her from afar. Then, with a sigh of impatience, as he recognized the signature on the envelope, he resigned himself to Barron's letter.
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