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Why should they? He took the gloomiest view of the future, and his inward soul acknowledged that the man the country wanted was Peel. Why might he not govern as long as Pitt? He probably would. Peel! his father's friend! And this led to a train of painful but absorbing memories, and he sat musing and abstracted, fiddling with an idle egg-spoon.
We are on the edge of a positive volcano." Down went the egg-spoon into its crater.
The Rat let his egg-spoon fall on the table-cloth, and sat open-mouthed. 'The hour has come! said the Badger at last with great solemnity. 'What hour? asked the Rat uneasily, glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece. 'WHOSE hour, you should rather say, replied the Badger. 'Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad!
The Rat let his egg-spoon fall on the table-cloth, and sat open-mouthed. "The hour has come!" said the Badger at last with great solemnity. "What hour?" asked the Rat uneasily, glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece. "Whose hour, you should rather say," replied the Badger. "Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad!
Miss Peppy at this moment discovered her mistake in regard to the egg-spoon, and rectified it, observing with a look of resignation, that there was no accounting for the way in which things happened in this world.
I walked quietly from the room, occupied with my own bitter reflections. "You say you have two items of news for me?" said Nayland Smith, looking across the breakfast table to where Inspector Weymouth sat sipping coffee. "There are two points yes," replied the Scotland Yard man, whilst Smith paused, egg-spoon in hand, and fixed his keen eyes upon the speaker.
It was as neatly effected by the two-and-a-half ton hammer as if it had been done by an egg-spoon. Then I had a great mass of white-hot iron swung out of the furnace by a crane and placed upon the anvil block. Down came the hammer on it with ponderous blows. My Lords scattered to the extremities of the workshop, for the splashes and sparks of hot metal flew about.
"Perhaps it doesn't, because you live half in the next world, don't you?" The words: "God forbid," sprang to Pierson's lips; he did not speak them, but put his egg-spoon down, hurt and bewildered. What did the child mean? Not feel the war! He smiled. "I hope I'm able to help people sometimes, Nollie," and was conscious that he had answered his own thoughts, not her words.
Bucephalus and I chanced to be near the spot at the time, so we managed to pull him out between us." "I don't like Bucephalus," observed Miss Peppy, stirring her tea with her egg-spoon by mistake. "Don't you, aunt why?" "Because he's so big and strong and fierce. I wonder you can take pleasure in riding such a great cart-horse, Kennie."
On the fatal morning of her removal from among us, she rose as usual and came to the family breakfast-table. With no premonition of what was to come she took her egg-spoon and cracked her egg, an egg laid by one of her own hens. In another moment failure of the heart transferred her to a higher sphere. She began that egg on earth, she finished it in heaven.
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