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He pressed her with his questions, for his discernment told him that it was of no use, while they were flying along the road at this pace, with a hamper at their feet or at his feet, crowding him rather uncomfortably and forcing him to sit with cramped legs no use for him to talk of the subject uppermost in his anxious mind.
No ark business about this craft." "Well, is there any objection to breaking our fast again?" the other inquired, changing the subject. Beverly seemed to think not, for he proceeded to get out the hamper in which much of their prepared food was contained. "I laid in double the quantity I expected we'd devour," he told them, "and then added something to that for good measure.
She would help the politician, while another might hamper the man. 'All that might be true, if the game of political life were played as it seems to be on the surface, and my cousin was exactly the sort of woman to use ordinary faculties with ability and acuteness; but there are scores of things in which her interference would have been hurtful, and her secrecy dubious.
As a new experience, she seemed distinctly worth cultivating, so long as that process did not seriously hamper the novel, that was unashamedly his first consideration, at the moment. He loved every phase of the work; from the initial thrill of inception to the nice balance of a phrase and the very look of his favourite words. His childish love of them for their own sake still prevailed.
Are we a-going to the little children's limbo? By Pluto, they'll bepaw and conskite us all. Or are we going to hell for orders? By cob's body, I'll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes. Thou shalt see me lay about me like mad, old boy. Which way? where the devil are they?
When told what he was to do, he grinned and started with alacrity to put the horses to the carriage and prepare the horse feed to take along with him. And meanwhile Hannah packed a hamper full of food and drink to solace the traveler on his night journey.
Every people teaches that its own country is the best; that its laws and institutions excel those of all other lands. This spirit is taken advantage of and used by designing men. It is used to send to jail those who criticise existing things. It is used to hamper and destroy any effort to change laws and institutions. The one who criticises conditions is a disturber and a traitor.
He ordered a great hamper of foodstuffs the most delicate kind of tinned goods, two perfect hams, tongues, Strassburg pies, chocolate, cakes, biscuits, and, as a last thought, half a dozen bottles of old liqueur brandy. It was to be carefully packed, addressed to Mrs. Morran, Dalquharter Station, and delivered in time for him to take down by the 7.33 train.
I reminded him that there was concentrated lemonade in the hamper, and a gallon-jar of water in the nose of the boat, and that the two only wanted mixing to make a cool and refreshing beverage. Then he flew off about lemonade, and "such-like Sunday-school slops," as he termed them, ginger-beer, raspberry syrup, &c., &c.
Hamper had said, only this very day, that if he were ruined by the strike, he would start life again, comforted by the conviction that those who brought it on were in a worse predicament than he himself, for he had head as well as hands, while they had only hands; and if they drove away their market, they could not follow it, nor turn to anything else. But this thought was no consolation to Mr.
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