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"Then his fingers would have claws at the ends!" she insisted; for no amount of explanation could persuade her that a person named Winky could be nice and gentle, even though he were "quicker than a second." She added that his death rejoiced her. "But I can easily make another such a nippy little beggar, and twice as hoppy as the first.
"Miriam," he had asked on the top of the moors, "did I ever tell you about Winky my little friend Winky?" And she had looked up with a smile and shaken her head. "But I like the name," she added; "I should like to hear, please."
"Well you see how comical he is." "Yes. I see it." There was something about everything that was Ranny's, something that touched her, something that made her love it, because she loved him. Winny couldn't have burst out laughing in its face. "I'm glad I came," she said. "Because now I can see you." He misunderstood. "I hope you will, Winky very often." "I mean see you when you're not there."
He no longer called her his "brilliant little sound," nor did she respond with "you perfect echo"; they fell back sign of a gradual concession to more human things upon the gentler terminology, if the phrase may be allowed, of Winky. They shared Winky between them ... though neither one nor other of them divined yet what Winky actually meant in their just-opening lives.
And she had followed it up by declaring that she hated that Violet Usher; and she hated Ransome; she hated everybody who made little Winky, little darling Winky, cry. But Winky didn't hate them. It had to be. Nothing could be more beautiful in its simplicity than her acceptance of the event. And she didn't blame them. She didn't blame anybody. She had brought it on herself.
But as I did not know the proper mantra for use upon such an occasion, I supplied one from memory, saying, in a hushed voice, "Hokey pokey winky wum," as I laid each one before the benignly-smiling statue. I have no doubt from their faces the priests imagined I was uttering a most powerful spell or prayer in my own language.
'Why, Bill! says she. 'Why, Peggy! says I; and we bussed each other like winky. 'Shall us come together agin? says she. 'Why, no, says I; 'I has a wife wots a good 'un, and gets her bread by setting up as a widder with seven small childern. By the by, Peg, what's a come of your brat? for as you says, sir, Peg had a child put out to her to nurse. Lor', how she cuffed it!
It really wouldn't. I don't mean the room, Ranny it's a dear little room I mean I mean, you know " Now at last she was embarrassed, helpless, shaken from her defenses by the suddenness of his proposal. "All right, Winky," he said, gently. Then she broke down, but without self-pity, tearless, in her own fashion. "Oh, Ranny, please don't think I'm horrid and ungrateful."
But why it was like that and why it was called Shakespeare's England, what on earth Shakespeare had to do with it, Winny couldn't think. "Shakespeare? Why, he wrote books, didn't he?" "Plays, Winky, plays." "Plays then."
"Drinky winky," said Papa. He put his glass to her shaking mouth. She turned her head away, and he took it between his thumb and finger and turned it back again. Her neck moved stiffly. Her head felt small and brittle under the weight and pinch of the big hand. The smell and the sour, burning taste of the wine made her cry. "Don't tease Baby, Emilius," said Mamma. "I never tease anybody."
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