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"If you would come with me perhaps " "I'll come, I'll come, and stand within call, to be sure. Only do ye mind this, dear soul alive, not to goo telling a crumb about mun, noo, not for the world, or yu'll see naught at all, indeed, now. And beside, there's a noxious business grow'd up against me up to Chapel there; and I hear tell how Mr.

"It is only his way; a hard crust, but a good wholesome crumb." That very morning Denis Quirk summoned Desmond into his room. "See here," he said, "we are not teetotal on this paper, but we know where to stop. It's time you stopped. Make a note of that." "Perhaps I had better go," cried Desmond in a passion.

When you bring me a handsome, wholesome loaf, entirely made by yourself, I shall be more pleased than if you offered me a pair of slippers embroidered in the very latest style. I don't wish to bribe you, but I'll give you my heartiest kiss, and promise to eat every crumb of the loaf myself." "It's a bargain! it's a bargain!

'And he don't drink hard, but he works hard, and go where he will he can hold his own. Ruby said no more, and soon found herself seated by her husband's side. It certainly was wonderful to her that so many people should pay John Crumb so much respect, and should seem to think so little of the meal and flour which pervaded his countenance.

Also cut a smaller piece, which must be rolled out considerably thinner than an inch, to serve as a lid for the other part; bake both pieces, and when done, scoop out the crumb of the largest, and fill it with a white fricassee of chicken, sweetbread, or whatever may be selected; the sauce should be well thickened, or it would soften, and run through the crust.

Recalling the time when they had refused invitations right and left because there was no one in Prouty whom they had cared to know, a smile of bitterness came to her lips. Since then, she had eaten the pie of humbleness to the last crumb. She had become a self-acknowledged toady, a spineless sycophant, and for what?

'Poor innocent, she murmured, 'he does not know what he is saying, but I will cut him a slice of that new wheaten loaf, and so she did, and Peronnik ate up every crumb, and declared that nobody less than the bishop's baker could have baked it.

You must not shovel in your food like that! or, 'Don't gurgle your tea down; swallow it quietly, like a little lady'; or, 'How often have you been told not to drink with your mouth full; this is not the servants' hall, remember! There were no signs of contretemps of any kind, nothing was upset or broken, and the cakes went easily round, though not a crumb was left over. But the entire time Mr.

The hall in front of your door is twelve feet wide and eighty long, lined with decorative chairs and sofas, and in the center of the hotel is a spacious dining room. The Spaniard doesn't want breakfast. He wants coffee and fruit maybe a small banana something sweet, and a crumb of bread. The necessity of the hour is a few cigarettes. His refined system does not require food until later.

I was ill prepared for a journey in midwinter through the enemy's country: happily I had my old overcoat, and this I put on. I had not a crumb of food saved up, as did those who were posted; but as I was ill at the time, my appetite was feeble. Wilcox and I hurried to the kitchen, where we found several hundred men struggling to be first at the opening in the fireplace.