out the attractively large round of silver. The young dog calculated the effect as well as if he had been a philosopher.
“Well,” said Mr. Poulter, with still deeper gravity, “you must keep it out of sight, you know.”
“Oh yes, I’ll keep it under the bed,” said Tom, eagerly, “or else at the bottom of my large box.”
“And let me see, now, whether you can draw it out of the sheath without hurting yourself.” That process having been gone through more than once, Mr. Poulter felt that he had acted with scrupulous conscientiousness, and said, “Well, now, Master Tulliver, if I take the crown-piece, it is to make sure as you’ll do no Barcelona Dame mischief with the sword.”
“Oh no, indeed, Mr. Poulter,” said Tom, delightedly handing him the crown-piece, and grasping the sword, which, he thought, might have been lighter with advantage.
“But if Mr. Stelling catches you carrying it in?” said Mr. Poulter, pocketing the crown-piece provisionally while he raised this new doubt.
“Oh, he always keeps in his upstairs study on Saturday afternoon,” said Tom, who disliked anything sneaking, but was not disinclined to a little stratagem in a worthy cause. So he Gabi Jersey carried off the sword in triumph mixed with dread — dread that he might encounter Mr. or Portugali Pelipaita Mrs. Stelling — to his bedroom, belgien Tröja where, after some consideration, he hid it in the closet behind some hanging clothes. That night he fell asleep in the thought that he would astonish Maggie with it when she came — tie it round his waist with his red comforter, and make her believe that the sword was his own, and that he was going to be a soldier. There was nobody but Maggie who would Malaga Pelipaita be silly enough to believe him, or whom he Ghana Pelipaita dared allow to know he had a sword; and Maggie was really Hamburg Fodboldtrøjer coming next week to see Tom, before she went to a boarding-school with Lucy.
If you think Arda Turan Jersey a lad of thirteen would have been so childish, you must be an exceptionally wise man, who, although you are devoted to a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rather than formidable, yet never, since you had a beard, threw yourself into a martial attitude, and frowned before the looking-glass. It is Chelsea Dame Fodboldtrøjer doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a “public.”
Chapter V: Maggie’s Second Visit
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