1
Except-as the little lamplighter might tell him-she has not denied him anything yet.
2
The little lamplighter was excused, and Colonel Harbison took his: place.
3
Yet all this while the little lamplighter, with the boy at his heels, was moving rapidly across the flats.
4
And Marshall seeming to acquiesce in this, the little lamplighter entered the yard and going to the front door rang the bell.
5
Such personal relations as the little lamplighter had sustained with the handy-man had invariably been of the most friendly and pacific description.
6
Yet the little lamplighter's manner took on confidence as he prepared to establish a few facts as a working basis for their subsequent reconciliation.
7
And then suddenly and painfully conscious of his verbal forwardness, the little lamplighter sank back into the grateful gloom of his corner and was mute.
8
Bill was now comfortably located on his haunches, but evidently still dissatisfied for he continued to back vigorously, drawing the protesting little lamplighter after him.
9
"I guess you'd call it a natural gift in my case, son," said the little lamplighter modestly.
10
"Young Mr. Langham has fell off the high iron bridge," said the little lamplighter, with a dignity that more than covered his lapse from grammar.