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"They can, for I've done it!" and Mrs. Bhaer laughed at the remembrance of certain youthful frolics. "I know I can play; Demi and I used to, and have nice times, but he won't let me now because the other boys laugh at him," and Daisy looked deeply grieved at her brother's hardness of heart. "On the whole, I think he is right, deary.
The sunlight flooded the dining-room and roused old grandfather Westcott to unwonted life, so that he stirred in his chair and was quite unusually talkative. He stopped Peter after breakfast, as he was going out of the room and called him to his side: "Is that the sun, boy?" "Yes, grandfather." "Deary me, to think of that and me a poor, broken, old man not able to move an arm or foot."
There was something hideous in the way this woman kept repeating, "Ye'll pay up according, deary, won't ye?" and the Chinamen and Lascars made never-to-be-forgotten pictures in the scene. I watched Dickens intently as he went among these outcasts of London, and saw with what deep sympathy he encountered the sad and suffering in their horrid abodes.
'But bless ye, my beauty! cried Mrs Boffin, taking him up short at this point, with another hearty clap of her hands. 'It wasn't John only that was in it. We was all of us in it. 'I don't, said Bella, looking vacantly from one to another, 'yet understand 'Of course you don't, my deary, exclaimed Mrs Boffin. 'How can you till you're told! So now I am a going to tell you.
You were gambling again yes, you were! Never mind how I know. I know!... I'll have macaroni, ripe olives, and a cream puff." "The same," Gay said, mournfully; adding: "Well, deary, I have to live!" "Why not work? I do. You sponge along and waste everyone's time.
"Well, well," he began again. "What's to be done? If my sister takes something into her head.... And anyhow, I'll tell you in confidence, she is a devil. Oh deary me, what I have to put up with from her!
She had her voice under perfect control, but her averted face and the very lines of her figure enlightened the shrewd old mother. 'Hast told him so? she asked. 'I have told him, Bertha answered, 'never to speak to me again. 'Hoity, toity, deary me! cried the old woman. 'And what says he to that? 'He didn't greatly seem to care, said Bertha, with a beautifully assumed air of indifference.
That bewildered creature gazed at her, and at the ring, till she had thoroughly exhausted the meaning of the words, and then exclaimed, horror-struck: "Deary me, now! you don't say that? You're to be married again in your own religion." The young wife repeated: "I can never part with it." "But, my dear!" the wretched Berry wrung her hands, divided between compassion and a sense of injury.
He wore the insignia of a captain under his dust-coat and the distinguishing marks of a very famous division of the A. E. F. "It's a buster!" he declared. "There's a paper sailing like a kite over the roof of the old mill " Ruth sprang up with a shriek. She ran to the back door by which Tom had just entered and tore it open. "Oh, do shut the door, deary!" begged Aunt Alvirah.
So what, says Mrs Boffin, breaking off in the rush of her speech to smile most radiantly, 'might you think by this time that your husband's name was, dear? 'Not, returned Bella, with quivering lips; 'not Harmon? That's not possible? 'Don't tremble. Why not possible, deary, when so many things are possible? demanded Mrs Boffin, in a soothing tone. 'He was killed, gasped Bella.
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