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But he didn't forget to bring me home a piece of lace from the fair. I put it on my petticoat. "He's on his way home now, Mrs. Wicket: yes, I can feel he's coming home." Mrs. Wicket, who had been up with Mrs. Grumble the night before, let her head droop forward on her breast. "I don't doubt it," she said. And in the silence of the sickroom, she presently fell asleep. Mrs.
"If the Englishmen grumble at the fight, and think it not fair play," muttered the old cockswain, "let us try it over again, sir; as they are somewhat short of hands, they can send a boat to the land, and get off a gang of them lazy riptyles, the soldiers, who stand looking at us, like so many red lizards crawling on a beach, and we'll give them another chance; but damme, if I see the use of whipping them, if this is to be the better end of the matter."
The staple meat was buck of all kinds; sheep were wellnigh unknown, oxen were scarce and their meat tough; but no one need grumble at a diet of buck, wild-pig, koran, guinea-fowl, and occasionally wild-duck.
A spasm of coughing shook her; for a moment she seemed anxious to speak. But as Mr. Jeminy bent over her, her breath failed; her head fell back, and with a single, frightened glance, Mrs. Grumble passed away, without saying what she had intended. Mr. Jeminy closed her eyes, and folded her hands across her breast. "She is gone already," he thought; "she is far away.
So far as the Parson's part went, it might have been called a Carouse as well as a Feast, for his Reverence took his Liquor, and plenty of it, with a joviality of Countenance the which it would have done your Heart good to see, drinking "Church and King," and then "King and Church," so that neither Institution should have cause to grumble, and then giving the Army, the Navy, the Courts of Quarter Sessions throughout England, Newmarket and the horses, not forgetting the Jockeys, the pious memory of Dr.
"Oh yes, I did, Punch," said Pen quietly, "for many a time I have felt for you when I have seen you wincing and your face twitching with pain." "Of course you did. I know. You couldn't have been nicer than you were. But what have you got to grumble about now you're better?" "Our bad luck in not getting back to some of our people." "Well, I should like that too, only I don't much mind.
There were rows of them sleeping feet to feet, with straw over them to make a covering. I didn't hear a grumble, and hardly a groan. Most of them slept heavily.
Mumble and grumble all about him, and men's faces showing that they were agreeing with the tremolo appeals of the elderly orators!
"If my sister were writing this letter, she would say that I have been very hard to please, and uninterested in everything since I came home. Indeed it seems as if I were. Well, perhaps I shall have all of them by Wednesday afternoon. You will think I can do nothing but grumble.
Chairman Presson, walking off his indignation, came and stood in front of the map. "Between you and me, Thelismer, they've got quite a lot to grumble about, the farmers have. You wild-land fellows have grabbed a good deal, and you don't pay much taxes on it. You ought to have loosened a little earlier."
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