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I meant to bring one with me and carry a cabbage-head home in it." Henrietta Hen spoke as if she were very peevish. "You've no right," she said, "to take one of the cabbages away with you." "I'm not going to," Jimmy Rabbit explained. "You were nibbling at one when I first noticed you," Henrietta Hen insisted. "Was I?" he gasped. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?
The idea of living like such a cabbage-head as that!" If Gus had not been with Edith, his good clothes and good looks would have been spoiled within the next five minutes. Edith glanced the other way and pointed to her strawberry-bed as if not noticing his remark or its object, saying: "If you will come and see us a year from next June, I can give you a dainty treat from these plants."
At length I followed after him, and asked what I must do. "Didn't I tell you to slush down the main-top mast?" he shouted. "You did," said I, "but I don't know what that means." "Green as grass! a regular cabbage-head!" he exclaimed to himself. "A fine time I'll have with such a greenhorn aboard. Look you, youngster.
When she caught sight of Rud, she continued her scolding. Her accent was Swedish. "So you run away, do you, you cabbage-head! If you'd only run so far that you couldn't find your way back again, a body wouldn't need to wear herself out thrashing a misbegotten imp like you! You'll go to the devil anyhow, so don't worry yourself about that!
At the first stage-station out of Comanche, a matter of twenty-five miles, and of fifteen beyond his camp, he made inquiry about Agnes. She had passed there the morning before, the man in charge said, measuring Slavens curiously with his little hair-hedged eyes as he stood in the door of his shanty, half a cabbage-head in one hand, a butcher-knife in the other.
"No, Geoffrey, no! we do not think highly of Doctor Namby, but there was no one else, for you seem to feel so strongly about Doctor Pottle " "Pottle is a boiled cabbage-head!" said Geoffrey. "He couldn't set a hen's leg without tying it in bow-knots, let alone a man's arm. Who did set it, Miss Vesta? I'm sure I must be up to 105 by this time. I can't answer for the consequences, you know, if "
Fran. I say, Peace thou over-grown Turk. Guz. Thou Spanish Cur. Fran. Why, you're a Mahometan Bitch, and you go to that. Guz. Death, I'll dissect the bald-pated Slave. Fran. I defy thee, thou foul filthy Cabbage-head, for I am mad, and will be valiant. Car. What Insolence is this! Mutes strangle him. Jul. Mercy, dread Sir, I beg my Husband's life. Car.
When she caught sight of Rud, she continued her scolding. Her accent was Swedish. "So you run away, do you, you cabbage-head! If you'd only run so far that you couldn't find your way back again, a body wouldn't need to wear herself out thrashing a misbegotten imp like you! You'll go to the devil anyhow, so don't worry yourself about that!
You have already been annoyed several times by replies that, in society, were politely received: people have held their tongues instead of smiling; but you were certain that after your departure the women looked at each other and said: "Did you hear Madame Adolphe?" "Your little woman, she is " "A regular cabbage-head." "How could he, who is certainly a man of sense, choose ?"
Not a cabbage-head or a pea-plant is to be seen. Not one strawberry or raspberry, no golden apricots on the wall or a single little dainty peach. The disorder everywhere is frightful. When I think how wonderfully it used to be managed by the Baroness!" Apollonie kept on wiping her eyes because present conditions worried her dreadfully.
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