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At the other end was a cosy little cabin, and above it a small deck, upon which the little passengers made themselves quite comfortable, and the Captain ordered the scales to be brought up from below. "What are they for?" asked Dick, who, boy-like, always wanted to know the reason for everything. "To weigh the anchor with," explained the Skipper, seriously.
Then a silence fell between them. She had ceased to lean against him, and he missed the cosy friendliness of it. Now that their voices and the cawings of the rooks had ceased, there was nothing heard but the dry rustle of the leaves, and the plaintive cry of a buzzard hawk hunting over the little tor across the river. There were nearly always two up there, quartering the sky.
His mother had prepared her nursery some time before; she had built a nice little hut, where it was warm and dry, under the outgrowing boughs of a tree; had carpeted it with thick, dry leaves and grass, twined and interlaced twigs and branches overhead to keep out the fierce rays of the midday sun and the occasional heavy showers, and had, in fact, made it just as cosy as it was possible for a monkey nursery to be.
"I don't know. I left them outside," said Betsy. "Well, if you hear three raps on the door, open it," said Kaliko; "but don't let anyone in unless they give the three raps." "All right," promised Betsy, and when Kaliko left the cosy cavern she closed and locked the door.
The little room looked cosy and comfortable; for it was very tidy and very clean, and the mother and daughter were peacefully at work. The pleasure manifested at sight of David and Matilda was very lively. Sarah set chairs, and her mother looked to the fire in the stove. "How does the oven work, Mrs. Staples?" Matilda asked. "Couldn't be no better, and couldn't do no better.
"Perhaps I have," with a humorous gleam. "Umh!... I'd be very sorry for the subjects; they would be ruled with a rod of iron." He pulled a chair forward, a large cosy one, such as he knew her soul loved, and she sank down into it. He still stood upright, watching her with kindly eyes. "Well!..." he began. "You sent me a very curt summons." Diana coloured a little, not quite clear where to begin.
They were shown into a warm cosy apartment where the table was laid. Aarö helped her off with her things. "I could not endure Peter Klausson's breath," she said, at which Aarö smiled. "In America we have a remedy for that." "What do you mean?" "One takes something which scents the breath." A moment later he asked her to excuse him. He had to arrange a few things.
Gurney's establishment which was formerly held by his father. He removed with his mother and sister to the house which was their home the first happy year they spent in Bayton, and it is as beautiful and cosy as ever.
Jump ditches, and do not stop till you are safe home hein? you say 'cosy? I hear my landlady. Run till you are safe cosy. But if you are a man wis a head and a pocket, zen you know that 'speculate' means a dozen ventures. So, you come clear. Or, it is ruin. It is ruin, I say: you have been playing." "An Englishman," returned Mr.
Before handing this manuscript to the publishers, I went to her dear, cosy old home and read the sheets. 'Why, she said, you have it all down just as accurately as if you had been with us during that dreadful time. But you make me too beautiful; that is the only fault. I want you to look up my grandson; he attends college at Toronto.
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