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Here, he added to the waiter, 'you take it. And, then, touching glasses, 'The health of Mr Gideon Forsyth, said he. 'Meestare Gidden Borsye, replied the waiter, and he tossed off the liquor in four gulps. 'Have another? said Michael, with undisguised interest. 'I never saw a man drink faster. It restores one's confidence in the human race.
But Kedzie also found out that several of the neighborhood girls accepted candy from several gentlemen simultaneously, and she drew many cynical conclusions from the candy business. Skip Magruder was attentive and took her out to moving pictures when he was free. In return for the courtesy she took her meals at "The Bon-Ton Bakery by Joe Gidden." Whenever he dared, Skip skipped the change.
About one month before his death, his friend Mr. Farrer, for an account of whom I am by promise indebted to the Reader, and intend to make him sudden payment, hearing of Mr. Herbert's sickness, sent Mr. Edmund Duncon who is now Rector of Friar Barnet in the County of Middlesex from his house of Gidden Hall, which is near to Huntingdon, to see Mr.
Herbert, and to assure him, he wanted not his daily prayers for his recovery; and Mr. Duncon was to return back to Gidden, with an account of Mr. Herbert's condition. Mr. Duncon found him weak, and at that time lying on his bed, or on a pallet; but at his seeing Mr. Duncon he raised himself vigorously, saluted him, and with some earnestness enquired the health of his brother Farrer; of which Mr.
Farrer had, by the death of his father, or an elder brother, or both, an estate left him, that enabled him to purchase land to the value of four or five hundred pounds a year; the greatest part of which land was at Little Gidden, four or six miles from Huntingdon, and about eighteen from Cambridge; which place he chose for the privacy of it, and for the Hall, which had the Parish-Church or Chapel, belonging and adjoining near to it; for Mr.
And, then, touching glasses, "The health of Mr. Gideon Forsyth," said he. "Meestare Gidden Borsye," replied the waiter, and he tossed off the liquor in four gulps. "Have another?" said Michael, with undisguised interest. "I never saw a man drink faster. It restores one's confidence in the human race."
She passed restaurant after restaurant, till at last she could stand the famine no longer. She got down from the car and walked till she came to a bakery lunch-room entitled, "The Bon-Ton Bakery by Joe Gidden." It was another like the one she ate in the day before. The same kind of waiter was there, a dish-thrower with the manners of a hostler.
And it is fit to tell the Reader, that many of the Clergy, that were more inclined to practical piety and devotion, than to doubtful and needless disputations, did often come to Gidden Hall, and make themselves a part of that happy society, and stay a week or more, and then join with Mr. Farrer and the family in these devotions, and assist and ease him or them in their watch by night.
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