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He paid her these attentions with an air of gentle gravity which became him well, but the slight fold between his brows betokened irritation and weariness. Cora Walcott seemed to delight in keeping him at her beck and call. She did not let him stir from her side for the whole of that sultry summer day.
With the candle in his hand, Grabman stole down the rugged steps even more timorously than Beck had ascended them, and put his finger to his mouth as they came in the dread vicinity of No. 7.
And "Beck! beck!" shouted our boys on duty with perfect mimicry of tone and yells of delight at the impotency of the drovers, galloping always outside the runaways and bending them back into the mob, flopping and wobbling and gurgling in their saddles until, in the half light, it was difficult to tell drover from "boy."
"That's vot it is, sir," said Beck, assentingly, laying his dexter forefinger on his sinister palm. "Well! you are in my service, then. Go downstairs now and get your breakfast; by and by you shall show me your 'mammy's' house, and we'll see what can be done for her."
Ah, you'll never find the way; follow me, -I have some questions to put to you." "Nothin' agin my carakter, I hopes, your honour," said Beck, timidly. "Oh, no!" "Noos of the mattris, then?" exclaimed Beck, joyfully.
Now Mansoul being wholly at his beck, and brought wholly to his bow, nothing was heard or seen therein but that which tended to set up him. But now, he having disabled the Lord Mayor and Mr.
I believe in the little fellow." "All right, Ma ... but I won't eat a mouthful of it, and you'd better drop a note right away for Uncle Beck to drive in, so's he'll be here on time for the cases of poison that are sure to develop." Cleaned and baked, the fish looked good, dripping with sauce and basted to an appetizing brown.
"Yes," answered Beck, with the cringe habitual to him. "H-up the ladder, vith the rats, drat 'em." "Well, lead on; hold up the lantern. A devil of a dark place this!" grumbled Jason, as he nearly stumbled over sundry broken chattels, and gained a flight of rude, black, broken stairs, that creaked under his tread. "'St!
From the very first, Elizabeth, who, in her utter ignorance how to behave, committed one egregious blunder after another, had perceived with her strong sense that it would require all the cleverness and patience she possessed to enable her to maintain the situation; and she began by following Madam Beck about untiringly like a lamb.
'Lord send that this beastly beck doesn't misbehave, said the Manager piously, and he went to take counsel with his Assistant about the pumps. But the Tarachunda misbehaved very much indeed. After a fall of three inches of rain in an hour it was obliged to do something.
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