Excerpt: ...and lifted out again. He spluttered and gurgled and tried to scream. "Now, Tommy," said Clare, "don't scream, or I'll put you in again." But Tommy never believed anything except upon compulsion. The moment he could, that moment he screamed, and that moment he was in the water again. The next time he was taken out, he did not scream. Clare laid him on the wall, and he lay still, pretending to be drowned. Clare got up, set him on his feet in front of him, and holding him by the collar, trotted him round the top of ...
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Excerpt: ...and lifted out again. He spluttered and gurgled and tried to scream. "Now, Tommy," said Clare, "don't scream, or I'll put you in again." But Tommy never believed anything except upon compulsion. The moment he could, that moment he screamed, and that moment he was in the water again. The next time he was taken out, he did not scream. Clare laid him on the wall, and he lay still, pretending to be drowned. Clare got up, set him on his feet in front of him, and holding him by the collar, trotted him round the top of the wall to the door, and dropped him into the garden. He was quiet enough now-more than subdued-incapable even of meditating revenge. But when they entered the nursery, the dog, taking Tommy for a worse sort of rat, made a leap at him right off the bed, as if he would swallow him alive, and the start and the terror of it brought him quite to himself again. "Quiet, Abdiel!" said Clare. The dog turned, jumped up on the bed, and lay down again close to the baby. Clare, who, I have said, was in old days a reader of Paradise Lost, had already given him the name of Abdiel. "Please, I couldn't help yelling!" said Tommy, very meekly. "I didn't know you'd got him!" "I know you couldn't help it!" answered Clare. "What have you had to eat to-day?" "Nothing but a beastly turnip and a wormy beet," said Tommy. "I'm awful hungry." "You'd have had something better if you'd stuck by the baby, and not left her to the rats!" "There ain't no rats," growled Tommy. "Will you believe your own eyes?" returned Clare, and showed him the skin of the rat Abdiel had slain. "I've a great mind to make you eat it!" he added, dangling it before him by the tail. "Shouldn't mind," said Tommy. "I've eaten a rat afore now, an' I'm that hungry! Rats ain't bad to eat. I don't know about their skins!" "Here's a piece of bread for you. But you sha'n't sleep with honest people like baby and Abdiel. You shall lie on the hearth-rug. Here's a blanket and a pillow for you!" Clare...
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