I give you joy ! '' `` I wish I could give it to you , '' said Tackleton . `` As I ca n't , thankee . Between ourselves -LRB- as I told you before , eh ? -RRB- I do n't much think I shall have the less joy in my married life because May has n't been too officious about me , and too demonstrative . Good-bye ! Take care of yourself . '' The Carrier stood looking after him until he was smaller in the distance than his horse 's flowers and favours near at hand ; and then , with a deep sigh , went strolling like a restless , broken man , among some neighbouring elms ; unwilling to return until the clock was on the eve of striking . His little wife , being left alone , sobbed piteously ; but often dried her eyes and checked herself , to say how good he was , how excellent he was ! and once or twice she laughed ; so heartily , triumphantly , and incoherently -LRB- still crying all the time -RRB- , that Tilly was quite horrified . `` Ow , if you please , do n't ! '' said Tilly . `` It 's enough to dead and bury the Baby , so it is if you please . '' `` Will you bring him sometimes to see his father , Tilly , '' inquired her mistress , drying her eyes , -- `` when I ca n't live here , and have gone to my old home ? '' `` Ow , if you please , do n't ! '' cried Tilly , throwing back her head , and bursting out into a howl -- she looked at the moment uncommonly like Boxer . `` Ow , if you please , do n't ! Ow , what has everybody gone and been and done with everybody , making everybody else so wretched ? Ow-w-w-w ! '' The soft-hearted Slowboy tailed off at this juncture into such a deplorable howl , the more tremendous from its long suppression , that she must infallibly have awakened the Baby , and frightened him into something serious -LRB- probably convulsions -RRB- , if her eyes had not encountered Caleb Plummer leading in his daughter .
This spectacle restoring her to a sense of the proprieties , she stood for some few moments silent , XXXXX her mouth wide open ; and then , posting off to the bed on which the Baby lay asleep , danced in a weird , St. Vitus manner on the floor , and at the same time rummaged with her face and head among the bedclothes , apparently deriving much relief from those extraordinary operations .
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