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Closing the front door noiselessly after him, he went softly down the steps and across the gravel till he stepped upon the grass border, when he made swiftly, recklessly, for the gates. A yard from them he all but fell over Flitch. That gentleman was lying face downwards, in a perfect agony of terror, scrabbling the gravel, mumbling to the Almighty to save him.
Taking up a plank in the floor, she pulled out a nice flitch of bacon, from which she cut as much as we could eat, and gave us some to carry with us. She got up a real substantial supper, to which we did full justice, in spite of the meal we had already eaten. They gave us a quantity of victuals to take with us, and instructed us as well as possible as to our road.
Bait it wid a flitch of bacon on the one side, and a collop o' fresh meat on the other, now before the praties comes in, and you're sure of him." "Any others, Dairby? but, indeed, as far as we have gone yet, the cases appear to me to be difficult ones. However, there is joy in heaven, Darby, over one sinner and surely the greater the sin the greater the joy and the triumph. Any others?"
"Ye give me good news, mister, for now I know for certain I've put meself right wi' Mr. Alan Craig wait a moment! and saved you from another dirty sin. I knows what ye had in the parcel that night, mister; I saw ye fixin' up the infernal " "Curse you! what are you drivelling about?" Flitch, his face chalky, continued: "And so I sent Mr.
He fell, clawing at the wall, and lay stupefied, at the mercy of the unknown, who promptly proceeded with whipcord to truss him up both neatly and securely. Then he was gagged, drawn into the room on the right, the dining-room, and locked in. Flitch went back to the front door and waved his hand, and Bullard, carrying a small black bag, appeared out of the darkness.
"Can't guarantee anything in this blasted rotten world," said Flitch, "but I think I can do the trick for you." "How?" "By bringin' whoever's in the house out at the back door while you slips in at the front." "Do you mean that you will knock at the back " "Cheese it, mister! It's your turn to listen now.
Those that haven't a stitch to their backs are clothed those that haven't a morsel to eat are fed and if they haven't a fire, they get plenty of fuel to burn their apostate skins at; and because this heretical crew avail themselves of the destitution of these wretches and lure them from their own faith by a blanket and a flitch of bacon, they call that conversion the new Reformation by the way, ha ha ha oh, it's too good!"
Really, friend,’ said he, after I had produced it, ‘thou must drive a thriving trade; here are provisions enough to last three people for several days. Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.
So the man with the flitch thanked the other for his good advice, and gave a great knock at the Devil's door. When he got in, everything was just as the old man had said. All the devils, great and small, came swarming up to him like ants round an anthill, and each tried to outbid the other for the flitch.
My suspicions of the major's probity were now almost confirmed, for when she offered to vouchsafe him her generosity, by frying a piece of the fish for dinner, he expressed a positive preference for bacon, a good flitch of which he saw in a little cupboard she opened in search of her stew pan.
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