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Mrs Pipchin has remained austere and stony during the proceedings, in her own room; or has occasionally looked in at the sale to see what the goods are fetching, and to bid for one particular easy chair. Mrs Pipchin has been the highest bidder for the easy chair, and sits upon her property when Mrs Chick comes to see her. 'How is my brother, Mrs Pipchin? says Mrs Chick.
This chick would take all as long as there was a drop left, and then resent the fondling of the mother-bird as interference. Again and again there came upon her moments in which she thought that Roger Carbury was right. And yet she knew that when the time came she would not be able to be severe. She almost hated herself for the weakness of her own love, but she acknowledged it.
Paul is at the head of the family; almost the only representative of it left for what am I I am of no consequence 'My dearest love, remonstrated Miss Tox. Mrs Chick dried her eyes, which were, for the moment, overflowing; and proceeded: 'And consequently he is more than ever bound to make an effort.
And Farr turned off the street and went into the shop and greeted his one-time traveling companion. "How does thee do?" replied Jared Chick, quietly, his Quaker calm undisturbed. He drew forth a white-hot iron and deftly hammered it into a circle around the snout of the anvil. "So you have given up knight-errantry and have gone back to the old job, have you, Friend Chick?" "No.
Tell me, chick, might a humble constituent speak to the great man?" Genevieve hesitated. "I'm sure he'd love to see you, Uncle Martin. But he did say " "Not to be disturbed by anybody, eh?" "Yes, Uncle Martin. It's a very important statement he has to prepare before " "Good day, then. You look fine in the old house, chick!" Mr.
I have compared the writing of each and every clerk with that of the forged order, and I will stake my reputation upon my conclusion. The forgery was committed by some outside party." Nick was an expert chirographist. To have deceived him with a disguised handwriting would have been utterly impossible, and none knew it better than Chick, who now nodded approvingly. "Some outside party, eh?"
And you mus' tell me a story, you mus', 'cause I'm a-helpin' Aunt Cheerie, I am." For you must know that the Small Chick is not very polite, and doesn't say "please," when she can help it. "Lend us a hand at the apples, too," said Aunt Cheerie. "No, I can't tell stories and pare apples, too."
I expressed to him my surprise that he should fuss about me like an old hen over a chick. It wasn’t like him at all. And he said that “en effet” it was Madame Léonore who wouldn’t give him any peace.
Chick, our spreader minder, says the young have always got bigger hearts than the old, and she'd sooner trust them than " Mr. Baggs tore a hank through the comb with such vigour that its steel teeth trembled and the dust flew. "Tell Granny Chick not to be a bigger fool than God made her," he said.
The shore is not only broken into rough headlands, but has a number of off-lying islets. Thus there are the Gull Rocks, off Penhale Point; the Chick, off Kelsey Head; and the Goose, off East Pentire. The sands in this district have wrought more havoc than the sea; and if tradition may be trusted there was once a far more dense population.
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