As to a chair, or anything of that kind for helping
Mrs. Peerybingle into the cart, you know very little
of John, if you think that was necessary. Before
you could have seen him lift her from the ground,
there she was in her place, fresh and rosy, saying,
'John! How can you! Think of Tilly!'
If I might be allowed to mention a young lady's
legs, on any terms, I would observe of Miss Slow-
boy's that there was a fatality about them which ren-
dered them singularly liable to be grazed; and that
she never effected the smallest ascent or descent,
without recording the circumstance upon them with a
notch, as Robinson Crusoe marked the days upon
his wooden calendar. But as this might be considered
ungenteel, I'll think of it.
'John? You've got the basket with the Veal and
Ham-Pie and things, and the bottles of Beer?' said
Dot. 'If you haven't you must turn round again,
this very minute.'
'You're a nice little article,' returned the Carrier,
'to be talking about turning round, after keeping me
a full quarter of an hour behind my time.
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