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I never s'posed you knew, but that night I kissed your sister in the entry an' asked her, I thought 't was you." "Yes, I knew that well enough I was in the buttery and heard it all. There, le's not talk about it." Solon came a step nearer. "But will you, Susan?" he persisted. "Will you? I know Jenny'd like it." "I guess she would, too," said Susan. "There! we don't need to talk no further!
On his left rose the head of the back-stairs, that led first with a double flight to the offices, the pantry, the buttery and the kitchen, and than, lower still, a single third flight down to the cellar.
The joy of the company in the hall extended itself to the buttery, where Gregory the jester narrated such feats of arms done by himself in the fray of the morning as might have shamed Bevis and Guy of Warwick. He was, according to his narrative, singled out for destruction by the gigantic baron himself, while he abandoned to meaner hands the destruction of St. Clere and Fitzosborne.
The width of the hall lies between." "Can I reach my chamber without entering the hall, or passing the armoury windows? I would rid me of my travel-stains, before I make my presence known to Sir Hugh." "Pass round to the right, and through the buttery; then you reach the garden and the steps up to your chamber from the side beyond the armoury." "Good. Tell no one of my presence, Martin.
George Heriot rose from the table, observing, that wine-cups and legal documents were unseemly neighbours. The earl asked the scrivener if they had laid a trencher and set a cup for him in the buttery and received the respectful answer, that heaven forbid he should be such an ungracious beast as to eat or drink until his lordship's pleasure was performed.
The house was double, built in the style of the day, with a hall running through it, and large rooms on either side, the kitchen, bakery, and well-house all at the back, and forming with the buttery a sort of L, near but not connecting the different outhouses. It was shingled from top to bottom, and the dormer windows, with their quaint panes, rendered it both stately and picturesque.
Mrs Bright opened her eyes to their widest, also her mouth, and dropped the Billy-garments. Mrs Davidson's buttery hands became motionless; so did the "babby's" tarry visage. For three seconds this lasted. Then the captain said, in the deepest bass notes he ever reached "Sister Nellie!"
Hasten thou! or I shall deem thee a double fool who will not fare to fetch his meat, though he be hungry." Then Hallblithe laughed, and went down the hall into the buttery and found the meat, and ate his fill, and came away with the drink back to the Long-hoary man, who chuckled as he came and said: "Fill up now for thee and for me, and call a health to me and wish me somewhat."
"To the buttery," said Betty; "this is milk for Moppet. The child is wakeful, and needs it." "Why did you not send Reuben?" asked Oliver, who was always kind and attentive to his sisters. "Reuben?" echoed Betty.
"Well, you can't while she's asleep," said Rachel quickly, "so you put it somewhere anywhere and when she wakes up, why, you can give it to her. Do hurry and you go and help him." So the two boys walked off to find a place in the buttery, and quick as lightning Rachel leaned over and set a kiss on the wrinkled old cheek. If Grandma couldn't hear, she was very quick at feeling, "Why!"
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