[True Tilda by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookTrue Tilda CHAPTER I 11/24
Look at the eyes of her." "Well ?" The Second Nurse, after a long look at the patient, turned to Tilda again. "You mind my tellin' you about Black Sultan ?" "Of course I do.
He was the one with the bearing rein and the white martingale.
Miss Montagu rode him." "Right-O!" Tilda nodded.
"Well, they used to come on next turn to mine, which was the Zambra Fambly, as before the Crowned 'eads--only there wasn' no fambly about it, nor yet no 'eads.
Me bein' 'andy an' dressed up, with frizzy 'air, they stood me on a tub with a 'oop, makin' believe 'twas for Miss Montagu to jump through; but of course she didn', reely. When she came round to me she'd only smile and touch me playful under the chin; and that made the sixpenny seats say, ''Ow womanly!' or, 'Only think! able to ride like that and so fond of children!' Matter of fact, she 'ad none; and her 'usband, Mike O'Halloran, used to beat her for it sometimes, when he'd had a drop of What-killed-Aunty.
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