Ravenshoe, 第 1 卷

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Ticknor and Fields, 1862 - 430 頁
 

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第 425 頁 - Very emphatically and in a loud tone of voice. This was very charming. If I could only answer for Gus, and keep Flora busy, it was wildly possible that we might pull through. If I had not been a madman, I should have noticed that Gus had disappeared. He had. And the pew door had never opened, and I was utterly unconscious. Gus had crawled up, on all fours, under the seat of the pew, until he was opposite the calves of his sister's legs, against which calves, horresco referens, he put his trumpet...
第 425 頁 - Archy harnessed it to his meal cart, which turns a mill, and plays music when the wheels go round ; and it ran downstairs with the cart ; and we heard the music playing as it went ; and it kittened in the wood-basket immediately afterwards; and Alwright says she don't wonder at it ; and no more do I ; and the steward's-room boy is going to drown some. But you mustn't tell Archy, because, if you do, he won't say his prayers ; and if he don't say his prayers, he will, &c. &c.
第 425 頁 - I wish those dear children (not meaning them any harm) had been, to put it mildly, at play on the village green, that blessed day. When I looked at Gus again, he was still on the hassock, threatening propriety with his trumpet. I hoped for the best. Flora had her prayer-book open, and was playing the piano on each side of it, with her fingers. After a time she looked up at me, and said out loud — "I suppose you have heard that Archy's cat has kittened ? " I said,

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