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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I'se never been, eever," said Rosy Posy, wistfully, "and so Boffin hasn't, too. But we don't want to go, us wants to stay home wiv Muvver." "And I say, Mops, look out for the Baltimore oriole," went on Kingdon. "He had a nest in the big white birch last year, and like as not he'll be there again."
The excitement of the cells then awaits them, to be followed by a free ride in "Black Maria," unless "muvver" can pawn something and raise the money, But many mothers cannot do this, others do not trouble; as to "farver," well, he does not come in at all, unless it is to give a "licking" to the boy when he comes out of prison for losing his job and his wages.
"Muvver," said Peggy, as they went hand in hand upstairs again; "do you think daddy really meant it as a surprise for me?" "I think he must have done, darling." "Aren't you sorry we spoiled his surprise, mummy?" "I don't think he minds, Peggy." "I think he does. Why did he look angry, and say I was to take it off?" "Perhaps, because it's rather too nice a frock for every day."
He stood up looking toward the house. Muvver was coming out, very slowly, leaning on the railing to the steps Muvver in the nightgowny dress Aunt Julia had made her, only it wasn't really nightgowny, because it was all over lace Muvver with her hair in two braids over her shoulders and all mussed up where she'd been lying down. Ariadne wondered that she hadn't smoothed it a little.
"Don't touch the tub, Charlie; I'll be back directly," said Mrs Brooke, as she was leaving the nursery. "Don't even go near it." "No, muvver, I won't." He spoke with much decision, for he adored water not to drink but to play with and seemed to realise the danger of his position, and the necessity for self-control.
Thus the flagged path by the walnut tree, the wooden bench beneath the window, and the open kitchen door, tended to become a sort of court where Mavis had to listen to an ever-increasing number of applicants. It used to be: "Muvver hey sent me to tell you at once, Mum, she isn't no better but a good deal worse, and the doctor hev ordered her some strong soup for to nourish her stren'th;" or "Mr.
Ariadne informed her companions, looking up from her egg with a yolky smile, "Daddy told Muvver the other day that 'Stashie had certainly learned to boil eggs something fine! And he laughed, but Muvver didn't. Was it a joke?" "They are very good eggs indeed, and well boiled," the new man answered. She loved the way in which he conversed with her.
"Exactly," said Coppy, gravely. "But I don't fink I'll ever want to kiss big girls, nor no one, 'cept my muvver. And I must vat, you know." There was a long pause, broken by Wee Willie Winkie, "Are you fond of vis big girl, Coppy?" "Awfully!" said Coppy. "Fonder van you are of Bell or ve Butcha or me?" "It's in a different way," said Coppy.
"There she goes again, messing with the doll's quilt," I agreed. "Le's fwow somefing at her!" suggested The Seraph. "Yes, and get into a row with the Bishop," answered Angel. "But I don't see myself going over there to play again. She's spoiled everything." "I s'pose she's a spoiled child," said The Seraph, dreamily. "Wonder where her muvver is."
It was Polly who had dubbed big Jim "Muvver," and the sobriquet had stuck to him in spite of his six feet two, and shoulders that an athlete might have envied.
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