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'I say again, it is a matter of feeling, returned the Secretary. 'I think Miss Wilfer's feeling very womanly and pretty. 'Now, give us your opinion, Noddy, said Mrs Boffin. 'My opinion, old lady, returned the Golden Dustman, 'is your opinion. 'Then, said Mrs Boffin, 'we agree not to revive John Harmon's name, but to let it rest in the grave.
Now, as all the chickens had names Sultan, Duke, Lord Tom Noddy, Lady Teazle, and so forth and as I was very proud of them as living birds, it was a great wrench to kill one at all, to start with. It was the murder of Sultan, not the killing of a chicken. However, at last it was done, and Sultan deprived of his feathers, floured, and trussed.
Then Eleanor spoke. "Polly, you're sure you know the road?" "We can't go very far wrong! If we keep to the trail we are bound to come out on the top somewhere!" laughed Polly, giving Noddy her head in selecting a safe footing on the rough trail. Eleanor, eager to show how well she could ride, forced her burro past Noddy while the latter was making a slight detour about a sage-brush.
Then says my Noddy, shaking his sides till he was fit to make 'em ache again: "Look out for being slighted and oppressed, John, for if ever a man had a hard master, you shall find me from this present time to be such to you." And then he began! cried Mrs Boffin, in an ecstacy of admiration. 'Lord bless you, then he began! And how he DID begin; didn't he!
One morning early, Jean-Marie led forth the Doctor's noddy, opened the gate, and mounted to the driving-seat. The Doctor followed, arrayed from top to toe in spotless linen, armed with an immense flesh-coloured umbrella, and girt with a botanical case on a baldric; and the equipage drove off smartly in a breeze of its own provocation.
The house inspected, emissaries removed the Inexhaustible, who was shortly afterwards heard screaming among the rainbows; whereupon Bella withdrew herself from the presence and knowledge of gemplemorums, and the screaming ceased, and smiling Peace associated herself with that young olive branch. 'Come and look in, Noddy! said Mrs Boffin to Mr Boffin.
'It is not, sir, Mr Wegg rejoined, as he sat down on his stool, with an air of gentle resignation, combined with melancholy candour; it is not a name as I could wish any one that I had a respect for, to call ME by; but there may be persons that would not view it with the same objections. I don't know why, Mr Wegg added, anticipating another question. 'Noddy Boffin, said that gentleman. 'Noddy.
Then these corduroy roads are a make-shift for hard ground," explained Polly, while Noddy started to clip-clop over the firmly-set logs. "Why don't the men wait for the next frost?" asked Barbara. "Hoh! Don't you know the trees would be worthless if they were left for a season? Decay and mold or worms would destroy the finest wood.
Says I: 'I'll go back Eastern Shore way, and see if there's any niggers to git. So I tramped it from Somers's Cove to Princess Anne, an' sluiced my gob at Kingston and the Trappe till I felt noddy with the booze, and lay down in the churchyard to snooze it off.
Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool. Now would I know whether you would have us understand by this same saying, as indeed you logically may, that formerly men were fools and in this generation are grown wise? How many and what dispositions made them fools?
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