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"It's delicious," nodded her lodger. "Really, Hell's Kitchen seems to suit me; I eat and sleep like a new man!" "So you ain't lived here long, Mr. Geoffrey?" queried Mrs. Trapes, eagle-eyed. "Not long enough to er sigh for pastures new. Don't go, Mrs. Trapes, I love to hear folks talk; sit down and tell me tales of dead kings and er I mean, converse of our neighbours, will you?"
He turned almost always to the right on getting to the end of his street, then he went onward down Bond Street to his club, whence he returned by precisely the same course about six o'clock, on foot; or, if he went to dine, later on in a cab. He was known to be a man of some means, though apparently not wealthy. Being a bachelor he seemed to prefer his present mode of living as a lodger in Mrs.
'Much you know about it! says I, cool as Labrador: 'I merely put my head through this ere place for the purpose of being friendly with this lone female lodger pull me out! In right good earnest they seized me by the boots, saying: 'Let us bring Young America into a respectable position; and with the most unmerciful jerks they laid me measuring the floor.
A pattern lodger in all respects was Mr Budge deferential towards Martha and myself, and from the first moment he beheld Miss Marion, regarding her as a superior being, yet one to be loved by a mortal for all that.
"The tea's cold and as black as ink," growled the indignant lodger, "and the egg isn't eatable." "I'm afraid you're a bit of a fault-finder," said Mrs. Hatchard, shaking her head at him. "I'm sure I try my best to please. I don't mind what I do, but if you're not satisfied you'd better go." "Look here, Emily " began her husband. "Don't you 'Emily' me!" said Mrs. Hatchard, quickly. "The idea!
He looked at me distrustfully, and I said: "'Madame Melanie, if you please. 'Don't know her! 'But I have received a letter from her. 'That may be, but I don't know her. Are you asking for a lodger? 'No, a servant probably. She wrote me about a place. 'A servant? a servant? Perhaps it is the marquis'. Go and see, the fifth story on the left.
The children had been put to bed in the kitchen as usual, after Jimmie had informed his mother that the clergyman had been round no less than three times since four o'clock to inquire after the vanished lodger. He was a little tearful at being put to bed at such an unusually early hour, as Mr.
My department in the prodigious Enterprise already mentioned is to scour the United Kingdom in a gig, establishing Agencies everywhere. While founding one of those Agencies, I heard of a certain friend of mine, who had lately landed in England, after a long sea-voyage. I got his address in London he was a lodger in this house. I called on him forthwith, and was stunned by the news of your illness.
Yet when we talked of her leaving it she always seemed so afraid her liberty would be interfered with. She is really too old to be running all over the country as she does, coming back cold and wet to that wretched place, where she might die any night all alone." "She do seem to have taken a fancy to me," Mrs. Horridge said placidly. "I might take her for a lodger, maybe.
Kinder looked ez if he mout be worse soon ef he didn't hump hisself." "Did you see him? in his room?" asked Rosey anxiously. Upon the answer to this simple question depended the future confidential relations of father and daughter. If her father had himself detected the means by which his lodger existed, she felt that her own obligations to secrecy had been removed. But Mr.
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