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  • Kitty buried her face in the pillow and called Toffy's name, and -- who knows?

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • 'Toffy's not fit to ride,' said the voice of a young man who would have liked Toffy to win the race, although he knew better than to back him.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • 'Toffy's so awfully unlucky,' said Jane, with genuine sympathy showing in her eyes and voice; 'and the doctor says his hand will be bad for a week at least.'

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • Suppose I tell you that I have been in his painting room scores of times, and that his sister The has made me tea, and his sister Toffy has made coffee for me?

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • To which the Scot replied, 'They make no difference to me whatever;' and the remark, Toffy thought, was an extraordinary check to any emotional feeling.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • 'I shall have to get a lot of boots,' said Toffy thoughtfully; 'it seems the right sort of thing to do when one is starting on an expedition, and I would rather like to get some of those knives that fellows seem to buy when they go out to South America.'

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • It ended in Toffy and Peter putting their available cash together and giving Purvis seventy pounds, and the clerkly man of ink produced a stamp and a stylographic pen from his pocket, and made out the receipt on the little dining-room table and handed it to Peter.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • It did not take very long in the telling, and until he had finished Toffy did not speak.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • 'Well, at least find out all you can about him,' said Peter, as Hopwood appeared with coffee, and Ross and Toffy joined them and sat down under the paraiso trees.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • 'When my creditors get too troublesome,' said Toffy, also waking up, 'I shall emigrate here and lose my own address.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

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