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"'He's getting ready to go and meet her now, he ses, 'and wot my missis'll say to me, I don't know. "His father-in-law came up on deck as 'e spoke, and began to brush 'imself all over with a clothesbrush. Nice-looking little man 'e was, with blue eyes, and a little white beard, cut to a point, and dressed up in a serge suit with brass buttons, and a white yachting cap. His real name was Mr.
Had he not been so careful to obliterate any badge of the Squire of low degree, at his elbows, cuffs, collar, kneecap, and head- piece, she might have achieved it with better success. But Mr. Barrett was armed at all points by a consummate education and a most serviceable clothesbrush. "You know how I love this neighbourhood!" said she. "And I! above all that I have known!"
March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, looking as if the 'precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
"That's all right," said the Kid. "Let's have your clothesbrush, please." The bride waited in the rosy glow of the pink lamp shade. The miracles were not all passed away. By breathing a desire for some slight thing a flower, a pomegranate, a oh, yes, a peach she could send forth her man into the night, into the world which could not withstand him, and he would do her bidding.
So that was Violet's line! I surveyed the Sympathetic Intelligence with a smiling interest. "Really, how nice! And of course you feel quite sure that on your side you thoroughly understand Miss Higglesby-Browne?" Miss Browne's hair was rather like a clothesbrush in her mildest moods. In her rising wrath it seemed to quiver like a lion's mane.
When old Hürlin had his room assigned to him, he at once began a minute examination of it. He found a window looking on the small courtyard, two doors, a bed, a chest, two chairs, a jar, a broom and duster; further, a shelf in the corner covered with oilcloth, on which stood a glass, a tin basin, a clothesbrush and a New Testament.
Ogilvie did not answer; he was looking at his besmeared hands and dishevelled clothes. "Confound it!" said he; "what's to be done now? The house is just round the corner." "Let us go in, and they will lend you a clothesbrush." "As if I had been fighting a bargee? No, thank you. I will go along till I find some tavern, and get myself put to rights."
Had he not been so careful to obliterate any badge of the Squire of low degree, at his elbows, cuffs, collar, kneecap, and head-piece, she might have achieved it with better success. But Mr. Barrett was armed at all points by a consummate education and a most serviceable clothesbrush. "You know how I love this neighbourhood!" said she. "And I! above all that I have known!"
"'He's getting ready to go and meet her now, he ses, 'and wot my missis'll say to me, I don't know. "His father-in-law came up on deck as 'e spoke, and began to brush 'imself all over with a clothesbrush. Nice-looking little man 'e was, with blue eyes, and a little white beard, cut to a point, and dressed up in a serge suit with brass buttons, and a white yachting cap. His real name was Mr.
"Upon another occasion, when he was near his commission, a great deal of bullying was going on, and in order to repress it a number of the last comers were questioned, when one of them said that Charlie Gordon had on one occasion hit him on the head with a clothesbrush.
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