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Meantime Fritz was leaning on the back of Mary's chair. "Miss Wolston," said he, "did you not tell me that you had brought Toby up, and that you were very fond of him?" "Yes, Fritz." "Then it would be unfair in me to withdraw his allegiance from you now, and, consequently, I must refuse your present" "But where would have been the merit of the gift if I did not hold him in some esteem?
"I rather think I should know that style," remarked Willis. "It is a pity Ernest is not with us," observed Fritz; "but the placard will keep for a day or two." "They say laughing is good for digestion," remarked Mrs. Wolston; "and if so, it must be confessed that Master Jack is a useful member of the colony in a sanitary point of view."
A box on the ears then sent him gibbering into a corner. "Your servant," remarked Mrs. Wolston, "has been taking lessons from Dean Swift as well as yourself, Willis." "I will serve him out for that, the swab; he does not play any of those tricks when we are alone. I must admit, however, that I am generally in the habit of helping myself."
Trace the cause to its source, and what think you is invariably found? A grain of sand; the unfortunate wretch has had the wind against him nothing more. Rescued from the sea, Mary Wolston was now a prey to a raging fever. Ill or well, at her age there is no medium, either exuberant health or complete prostration; the juices then are turbulent and the blood is ardent.
Wolston. "Without reference to the dog in particular," continued Jack, "proofs of sagacity in animals are very numerous. The nautilus, when he wants to take an airing, capsizes his shell, and converts it into a gondola; then he hoists a thin membrane that serves for a sail; two of his arms are resolved into oars, and his tail performs the functions of a rudder.
Christianity alone, amidst all these ring and fallen fabrics, retains its original vitality, for, like its author, it is imperishable." "It is a curious thing what we call conversation," observed Mrs. Wolston. "No sooner is one subject broached than another is introduced; and we go on from one thing to another until the original idea is lost sight of.
Chimpanzees have been known spontaneously to sit themselves down, and perform the operation of shaving." "Stop, Jack," cried Mrs. Wolston; "I must yield to such a deluge of argument, and admit that Toby may have acquired the art of embroidery with or without a master, only I should like to see some other specimen of his skill."
Wolston awaited his guests at a bridge of planks that had been thrown across the Jackal River, where he and Willis had erected a sort of triumphal arch of mangoe leaves and palm branches. Here Becker and his family were welcomed, as if the one party had just arrived from Tobolsk, and the other from Chandernagor, after an absence of ten years.
Becker, Wolston, Ernest, and Frank set about the construction of a vehicle on four wheels for the luggage and the ladies; they did not contemplate erecting a machine with elastic springs and gilded panels, like the Lord Mayor's state coach their object was to produce a machine that would ease, without dislocating, the limbs of the travellers, and that would move at least more gently than a gardener's cart, loaded with hampers of greens for Covent Garden Market.
One day they would have the cooked, or rather half-cooked, British joints of Mrs. Wolston and her daughter, varied occasionally, to the great delight of Willis, with a tureen of hotch-potch or cocky-leekie. The next there would be a display of the cosmopolite and somewhat picturesque cookery of Mrs.
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