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"D'you want to take him home and play with him? Shall I ask if he's for sale?" "Oh, Ranny!" She turned away. And he drew her arm in his. "You won't be happy till you've got him, Winky." She said nothing to that; only her mouth, without her knowing it, kept for him its little dreamy smile. "I believe," said Ranny, "you've never reelly got over Stanley's goin' into knickers."
His highest destiny was upon the unchanged old earth ... with Miriam ... and Winky.... She turned and flung her arms round his neck in a passion of tears as though she had divined his unspoken temptation ... and at the same time this awful new thing was upon them both. It caught them like a tempest. For a disharmony a discord a lying sound was loose upon the air from those two voices far below.
I got them from an importing shop in Minneapolis. While they were shyly rustling the paper costumes she disappeared. Ten minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon grotesquely ruddy Yankee heads above Oriental robes, and cried to them, "The Princess Winky Poo salutes her court!" As they looked up she caught their suspense of admiration.
"If we only could " Something gave way in him and dissolved, and he was weak as water when he looked at her. The violins gave forth a penetrating, excruciating cry. And he felt in him the tumult evoked, long ago, one Sunday evening by the music in the Mission Church of St. Matthias's. Only he knew now what it meant. His voice went thick in his throat. "I mustn't, Winky. I daren't.
"Where we goin', Daddy?" "We're going down down ever so far down, with London on the top of us All the horses" Winny worked the excitement up and up "All the people All the motor buses on the top of us " "On top of me?" "And on me?" cried Dossie. "And on Daddy and on Winky?" "Will it make us dead?" said Stanley. He was thrilled at the prospect. "No. More alive than ever.
The dark design of their torturers was to take these innocent ones by night, drugged with their sleep, and pack them in the pram, snugly blanketed, and thus convey them in secrecy to Wandsworth, where, it was hoped, they would wake up, poor lambs, to a morning without memory. "Well Winky," he said. But it was not yet well.
"By Jove, that tickles me!" he said. "What does it mean, Ranny?" "Why, I suppose it means they try it first and if they don't like it they can chuck it." "What an idea!" "It's a rippin' good idea, Winky. Shows what a thunderin' lot of sense these simple savages have got. You bet they're not quite so simple as they seem. They know a thing or two.
It had been standing a whole minute before Johnson's side door. He sent it away. For fifteen seconds, measured by hammer strokes of their hearts, they were alone. On the streaming doorstep, under the dripping eaves, he held her. He kissed her sweet face all wet with rain. "Little Winky little darling Winky." He pushed back her Peggy hat, and his voice lost itself in her hair.
Still, it was wonderful how all these years they had kept their heads. So she said: "Hadn't we better be going? I think we ought to." She had unlaced her hand from his, and had turned in her seat to face him with her decision. "Not yet." "Well soon. It's getting rather chilly, don't you think?" At that he jumped up. "Are you cold, Winky?" "My feet are, sitting." "I forgot your little feet."
If that doesn't about take the biscuit! Winky, you're a blessing, you're a treasure, you're a treat; I could live for a fortnight on the things you find to say." He would have drawn her to him, but she held herself rigid. "Well, but I haven't have I?" "If you mean, have you made me want to marry you, you have. Haven't I told you I've thought of nothing else for more than two years?"
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