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Sentimental Tommy

CHAPTER VIII
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You are a kind laidy or gentleman.

I love yer.

I will never do it again, so help me bob.

Amen." "Charming!" chirped the lady, and down pleasant-smelling aisles she led him, pausing to drop an observation about Tommy to a clergyman: "So glad I came; I have discovered the most delightful little monster called Tommy." The clergyman looked after her half in sadness, half sarcastically; he was thinking that he had discovered a monster also.
At present the body of the hall was empty, but its sides were lively with gorging boys, among whom ladies moved, carrying platefuls of good things.

Most of them were sweet women, fighting bravely for these boys, and not at all like Shovel's patroness, who had come for a sensation.
Tommy falling into her hands, she got it.
Tommy, who had a corner to himself, was lolling in it like a little king, and he not only ordered roast-beef for the awe-struck Shovel, but sent the lady back for salt.


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