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You really must have something new made, even if there are no men here to dress for." "Aunt Lillian, you must not say such things. I do not think that I ever dressed to please men." "Tut, tut; my dear, we all do. I did, even after married your uncle. It is natural.
"Tut, tut, David, it's a long story, and you wouldn't understand it if I told it. It's only that they're all alone in the world, and Jack Gurnsey isn't well. He must be thirty years old now. He had bright hopes not so long ago studying law, or something of the sort, in the city. Then his father died, and his mother, and he lost his health.
"He saw us," said Matcham. "I could swear it!" "Tut!" returned Dick, recovering some sparks of courage. "He but heard us. He was in fear, poor soul! An ye were blind, and walked in a perpetual night, ye would start yourself, if ever a twig rustled or a bird cried 'Peep." "Dick, good Dick, he saw us," repeated Matcham. "When a man hearkeneth, he doth not as this man; he doth otherwise, Dick.
It is something, however, to have proved one's friend, for a real good friend he is. It was he who brought it in, though Clara sent him. But this other money will be enough to cover everything, and it is all my own." "Your own? Where did you get it, dad?" "Tut, tut! See what it is to have a City man to deal with. It is my own, and fairly earned, and that is enough." "Dear old dad!"
But on going downstairs he met Cæsar, who asked him how he found her. "Feverish, very; keep her in bed," he answered. "As for this marriage, it must be put off. She's exciting herself, and I won't answer for the consequences. The thing has fallen too suddenly. To tell you the truth this way, Mr. Cregeen I am afraid of a malady of the brain." "Tut, tut, doctor," said Cæsar.
Still Barbara sat limp and powerless, as one sits in a nightmare. Georgina gave a choking gasp as two awful words rose up in her throat and stuck there. "The Tishbite." Whatever that mysterious horror might be, plainly its evil workings had begun. "Tut!" exclaimed Tippy, pulling Barbara to her feet. "Keep your head.
"But I've the best voice," said the tiger-shell; it is called tiger-shell because it looks like a panther. "Oh! tut, tut!" said the common garden-snail, "I'm more in demand than any other snail in the world; you'll find me all over the flower-beds in the summer, and in the winter I lie in the wood-shed in a cabbage tub. They call me uninteresting, but they can't do without me."
For the credit of the thing, I wish we could change sides you and I, Frank, and you, too, missy, my darling and leave that being on the bed to some one else. Tut! Don't look shocked! We are all going post to what they call eternity, and may as well be above board while there's time.
That's where all my money has gone. But I think they'll give me a chance this time. It's for the chorus of that new 'Tut! Tut! Marie' thing, you know, and they've advertised for fifty girls." I suppose I must have let loose a gasp.
"Let him go home and ask his mammy to hang him out to dry," said another. "Tut, tut, my good fellow. I really am very sorry for having upset you. Here's half-a-crown to cover damages." "Better give it me than a muff like that," quoth he of the long pole; while I answered, surlily enough, that I wanted neither him nor his money, and burst through the crowd toward Cambridge.
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