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He had made good use of the two half-crowns, for he had not only feasted and was feasting still: on a bag of winkles and a saveloy but was washed and brushed and had gone to the length of a shoe-shine and a collar. "Been waitin' since eleven o'clock, sir," he said, getting up and pulling his forelock as Cleek appeared. "Didn't knock and arsk for no one, though not me.
Bensington slowly, and stared at the chick as he spoke. "I Say!" said Bensington, "he'll be Big." "I shall give him diminishing doses," said Redwood. "Or at any rate Winkles will." "It's rather too much of an experiment." "Much." "Yet still, you know, I must confess ... Some baby will sooner or later have to try it." "Oh, we'll try it on some baby certainly."
"I have recently been entrusted with a child the child of of an Exalted Personage." Winkles coughed. "You're getting on," said Redwood. "I must confess it's largely your powders and the reputation of my success with your little boy There is, I cannot disguise, a strong feeling against its use.
"Tell her," he said, "there's fruit at stalls at every street-corner all the year through oysters and whelks, if she likes winkles, lots of pictures in shops a sight of muslin and silks, and rides on omnibuses bands of all sorts, and now and then we can take a walk to see the military on horseback, if she's for soldiers."
"Tell her," he said, "there's fruit at stalls at every street-corner all the year through oysters and whelks, if she likes winkles, lots of pictures in shops a sight of muslin and silks, and rides on omnibuses bands of all sorts, and now and then we can take a walk to see the military on horseback, if she's for soldiers."
He was continually telling them both that he felt it was a Big Thing, that it had big possibilities. If only they were "safeguarded in some way." And at last one day he asked outright to be told just how it was made. "I've been thinking over what you said," said Redwood. "Well?" said Winkles brightly. "It's the sort of knowledge that could easily be subject to grave abuse," said Redwood.
Next us westward were the Ogdens, three slim and fair sisters, who soared far above us in age and general amenity; then came the Van Winkles, two sisters, I think, and a brother he much the most serious and judicious, as well as the most educated, of our friends; and so at last the Norcoms, during their brief but concentrated, most vivid and momentous, reign, a matter, as I recall it, of a couple of breathless winters.
Then at a distance there seems to be a sort of bloom on it, as upon the grape or plum. Amid a grove of yellow maple, it makes a most pleasing contrast. By mid-October, most of the Rip Van Winkles among our brute creatures have lain down for their winter nap. The toads and turtles have buried themselves in the earth.
Smith who nursed old Mr. Van Winkle and afterwards married him was their divorced sister, Mary, who had not only grown tired of a husband but of nursing other women's husbands as well. The situation was unique. "Good heavens," said Rip, after the ceremony which linked the entire Barrows family to the Van Winkles, "what relation are we to each other?"
The merry Van Winkles, good fellows and good sports that they were, thrived with the game, and kept straight down the course of true love as well. "Jeffy," said Rip one evening after returning from a rather protracted call on Toots Barrows, "I have asked her to marry me." "So have I," said Jeff, who had returned with him from the Barrows home. "I wonder what the governor will say?"
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