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Four pairs of hands deposited Mr. Scutts with mathematical precision in the centre of the bed and then proceeded to tuck him in, while Mrs. Scutts drew the sheet in a straight line under his chin. "Don't look much the matter with 'im," said one of the assistants. "You can't tell with a face like that," said the furniture-remover. "It's wot you might call a 'appy face.
Just's thoughtless egoism had placed them both. Blakeney was a man of abnormal physique and iron nerve, else he could never have endured the fatigues of the past twenty-four hours, from the moment when on the Sunday afternoon he began to play his part of furniture-remover at the Temple, to that when at last on Monday at noon he succeeded in persuading the sergeant at the Maillot gate that he was an honest stonemason residing at Neuilly, who was come to Paris in search of work.
Why, he was 'arf smiling as we, carried 'im up the stairs." "You're a liar," said Mr. Scutts, opening his eyes. "All right, mate," said the furniture-remover; "all right. There's no call to get annoyed about it. Good old English pluck, I call it. Where d'you feel the pain?" "All over," said Mr. Scutts, briefly.
When a gentleman with a van calls for your furniture you have means of ascertaining whether he is the furniture-remover whom you ordered or the burglar whom you didn't order, but there is no way of discovering which of two Latin tags is inspiring a nation's armaments. Si vis pacem, para bellum it is a delightful excuse. Germany was using it up to the last moment.
Four pairs of hands deposited Mr. Scutts with mathematical precision in the centre of the bed and then proceeded to tuck him in, while Mrs. Scutts drew the sheet in a straight line under his chin. "Don't look much the matter with 'im," said one of the assistants. "You can't tell with a face like that," said the furniture-remover. "It's wot you might call a 'appy face.
His neighbours regarded him with sympathetic eyes, and then, led by the furniture-remover, filed out of the room on tip-toe. The doctor, with a few parting instructions, also took his departure. "If you're not better by the morning," he said, pausing at the door, "you must send for your club doctor." Mr.
His neighbours regarded him with sympathetic eyes, and then, led by the furniture-remover, filed out of the room on tip-toe. The doctor, with a few parting instructions, also took his departure. "If you're not better by the morning," he said, pausing at the door, "you must send for your club doctor." Mr.
So thereon I wrote to a furniture-remover, and went out to walk round the mossy old garden for the last time, and say good-bye to the great mulberry, under whose Dodonaesque shade we had sat half frightened on starry nights, to the apple-trees whose blossom had seemed like fairy-land to Margaret and me, town-bred folk, to the apricots and the peaches and the nectarines that it had seemed almost wicked to own, as though we had gone abroad in silk and velvet, to the little grassy orchard, and to the little green corner of it, where Margaret had fallen asleep that summer afternoon, in the great wicker-chair, and I had brought a dear friend on tiptoe to gaze on her asleep, with her olive cheeks delicately flushed, her great eyelids closed like the cheeks of roses, and her gold hair tumbled about her neck...
Why, he was 'arf smiling as we, carried 'im up the stairs." "You're a liar," said Mr. Scutts, opening his eyes. "All right, mate," said the furniture-remover; "all right. There's no call to get annoyed about it. Good old English pluck, I call it. Where d'you feel the pain?" "All over," said Mr. Scutts, briefly.
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