Mr. Dick seemed quite frightened.

“That little man of a doctor, with his head on one side,” said my aunt, “Jellips, or whatever his name was, what was he about? All he could do, was to say to me, like a robin redbreast⁠—as he is ⁠—‘It’s a boy.’ A boy! Yah, the imbecility of the whole set of ’em!”

The heartiness of the ejaculation startled Mr. Dick exceedingly; and me, too, if I am to tell the truth.