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Fanny had lain down in the dust, and I had but to rise as I would from a low chair to be standing quietly by her side. George dared to grin, and there were two or three country-people who happened to be passing at the time, who were convulsed with laughter at my expense a laughter in which I could not but heartily join. How much has fancy to do with such things!
How much we are in the hand of Providence 'rough-hew our ends as we may! In little more than an hour we shall probably be at our journey's close for the time. I have just heard a story of the poor country-people here. A few days ago, a party of drunken sailors went to a village, got into a row, and killed a man by mistake.
I wonder how Father Shannon can allow such a thing, making the house of God into into I don't know what, for the purpose of preaching robbery and murder. Just look at the country-people how sour and wicked they look! Don't they, Alice? 'Goodness me! said Olive, 'who in the world can those people be in our pew? Mrs. Barton trembled a little.
Then natives and Kruboys will strike for increased wages till even diamond-mines would not pay. The Gold Coast contains rich placers in abundance: if they fail it will be for want of hands, or because the cost of labour will swallow up profits. The country-people, Fantis, Accra-men, Apollonians of Béin, and others, will work, and are well acquainted with gold-working.
Rosalys was of a much more even and cheery temperament: she 'took after' her father, as the country-people say. It was not without putting some slight force on herself that Biddy's mother pressed the little hand; and that she did so was in great part owing to a sudden remembrance of some words which Mrs.
I am not sure whether these verses are by Béranger or not, but they certainly deserve to be. As the song ended, the market-place was being rapidly filled by streams of people who came pouring into it from all directions. The crowd was now mostly composed of country-people, all dressed in holiday garments, but in appearance, nevertheless, for the greater part at least, the very reverse of happy.
As she spoke a few tears started. Her tears were so rare, that the children looked in dismay at their father. He gently declared that the more injury they suffered from the country-people the more they needed all the earnings they could make. They must cling to the means of an honest maintenance, and not throw away such an employment as hers.
As it was, the charts furnished to the Commander-in-Chief were untrustworthy, and information had to be sought from the country-people. May 2. 2.30 A.M.
Finally, she must be above feeling any affront or mortification, and learn to consider herself in the light in which she is commonly regarded a sort of machine pertaining to the bank: just as much a part of the establishment, in fact, as the iron money-chest which stands in the office, and created solely for the advantage and convenience of her travelling country-people.
When the miller, for instance, receives his toll, the country-people usually throw in several handfuls of meal as a Dhuragh. "'Oh! murther sheery! shouted the miller. 'Murther-an-age, I'm kilt! Foul play! foul play! "'You lie, big Nebuchodonosor! it's not this is all fair play, you big baste!
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