Mrs. Alexander
Capitolo 3
The small man, kept firmly from the shoulder marches back to his
young keeper.
"Thanks!--oh, thanks thousand times! You has saved his/her life!"
she exclaimed, fervently, in unstable tones. Then to his/her/their child: "As
could you/he/she break Your promise to be from me Cecil? You would have been
killed but for this gentleman!"
"I wanted to take the 'the omlibus' for You, auntie!" he cried, with a
uncontrollable hiccup, although he gallantly tried to hold again his/her torn wounds.
"You hope for the small individual it is not anybody the worse of fear" his/her, said the
Colonel, advancing and raising his/her hat. "Can I be of some use?--me
do you call a taxi?"
"No, thanks; I will take a bus and I will find to house as soon as I am able.
Cecil will forget soon his/her fear, I fear--"
"Sooner that you want", remarked Bertie. "There is a bus of Real Oak.
Will that does?"
"Yes, thanks."
"Comes long, then, my youth; I won't allow her to go."
Bertie put the trio in the vehicle and him spectator-on saw that him
shaken the hand "auntie" as the ticket man jumped on his/her Persian fish and them
rolled on.
"Gad! there be an opportunity for you!" cries the Colonel as Bertie it connected him/it.
"An excellent girl and not common, from George! What a dye! and a splendid pair
of black eyes!"
"I suspect extreme fear it made a good quantity for both, poor girl. His/her eyes
it is brown, not black."
"Make brown! Nonsense! Didn't _you_ think that they was black?"
"I didn't observe them", the serious character that he is turned returned,
indifferently. "The boy had a narrow escape. I have to say the good person morning,"
he added.
"You stop some", the Colonel cried. "I have to see again her before you go away
city. You dine with me to the Young person to-tomorrow. And, Bertie--"
"Thanks, no, I am busy." He said good-from and it walked on.
"Strange individual that", says the Colonel looking later at him. "He got in
of the financial worries in India, he/she left the army, and you/he/she was converted. Now him
it precisely is not a soldier of Salvation but anything of some kind. He will be