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Her system of composition excluded capitals and stops; and reduced all the words in the English language, by a simple process of abridgment, to words of one syllable. "dear ov you come back car is ill she wants you be quick be quick don't say I writ this miss min is gone I hate books I like you zo." With the pen still in her hand, the wary writer looked round at her father.
Maria said grace. Zo, always ravenous at meals, forgot to say Amen. Carmina, standing behind her chair, prompted her. Zo said "Amen; oh, bother!" the first word at the top of her voice, and the last two in a whisper. Mrs. Gallilee looked at Carmina as she might have looked at an obtrusive person who had stepped in from the street.
"And who knows what it is?" She drew away her hand, and looked towards the heavenly tranquillity of the evening sky. "Who knows what it is?" he reiterated. "God," she said. Benjulia was silent. The clock on the mantelpiece struck six. Zo, turning suddenly from the window, ran to the sofa. "Here's the carriage!" she cried. "Teresa!" Carmina exclaimed.
On the way to the sea-wall the baron poured forth his damning indictment, disjointedly and without the fierceness of phrase and splendour of gesture he had practised; and three times the grand duke said, somewhat phlegmatically, the baron thought: "Ach zo?" They came out on to the wall just above the band of Pollyooly's subjects, hot and excited in a game of rounders.
Miss Minerva tried hard to go on composedly with the dissertation on cranes. "Flocks of these birds, Maria, pass periodically over the southern and central countries of Europe" Her breath failed her, as she looked at Ovid: she could say no more. Zo stopped those maddening confidences; Zo, in desperate want of information, tugged boldly at Carmina's skirts this time.
Carmina's enjoyment of Zo was becoming too keen for her strength; her bursts of laughter grew louder and louder the wholesome limit of excitement was being rapidly passed. "Tell us about your cousins," he said, by way of effecting a diversion. "The big ones?" Zo asked. "No; the little ones, like you." "Nice girls they play at everything I tell 'em.
As I said before, they musd build a shib, and she musd be of sufficiend size to float in the air and to garry all her eguipments." "But such an aerial ship would be a veritable monster" protested the colonel. "Zo are the Adlandic liners of the presend day," quietly answered the professor. "Phew!" whistled the colonel.
I'm glad you be coming zoon; the colour of the young grass be wonderful." "Indeed!" remarked Mavis, as she looked at him, surprised. "That's the advantage of varming," continued Trivett: "you zee natur in zo many colours and zo many moods." Thus talking, they reached the churchyard gates, where Mavis released Jill, who was delighted at being set at liberty.
He lay there for a week, indignant with Providence for thus wasting his time. "There bain't nart the matter wi' I! Then why be I a-farced to lie thic way?" he said faintly. "If zo be I wor bod, I cude understand, but I bain't bod. There bain't no pain tu speak on no-wheres. It vair beats my yunderstanding."
If I stay in pedt it's zo I can fling money away on somethings else. Heigh?" "But what are you living here for, Lindau?" March smiled at the irony lurking in Lindau's words. "Well, you zee, I foundt I was begoming a lidtle too moch of an aristograt.
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