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"He's a bit fratchety and irritable, I'm free to admit, but you should not judge a man when his nerves are upset. There's not a better man on earth than Mr Macalister when he has his health. It's dull for a man-body to be shut up in an inn, without the comforts of home, and feeling all the time that there's money going out.
"I have long secretly wanted the protection of what Jane calls a man-body in the House, and when I saw how Lemuel had blacked the furnace, I knew I should feel as safe with him as with a whole body of troops." "Well," sighed the minister, "you have not been rash, perhaps, but you'll allow that you've been rapid." "No," said Miss Vane, "I won't allow that. I have simply been intuitive nothing more.
Now and again she found a little work for him, and was always delighted when she could share her poor meal with him. "Any one like myself feels a need of seeing a man-body at the table-end once in a while," she said. "But hands off you don't owe me anything!" She criticized his clothes. "They'll all fall off your body soon why don't you put on something else and let me see to them?"
Now and again she found a little work for him, and was always delighted when she could share her poor meal with him. "Any one like myself feels a need of seeing a man-body at the table-end once in a while," she said. "But hands off you don't owe me anything!" She criticized his clothes. "They'll all fall off your body soon why don't you put on something else and let me see to them?"
Then, the man-body never complains, and I can't see that he expects anything more in an order than the clear understanding of it. He doesn't expect it to be accounted for in any way; the fact that you say you want a thing is enough. It is very strange. Then the moral support of the presence of a man-body is enormous.
'My mither, than? suggested Shargar, with hesitation. 'Ye maun haud yer face to the fac'. 'Ay, ay. But gin they said onything, ye ken aboot her. 'Gin ony man-body says a word agen yer mither, ye maun jist knock him doon upo' the spot. 'But I michtna be able. 'Ye could try, ony gait. 'He micht knock me down, ye ken. 'Weel, gae doon than. 'Ay.
Agnes had orders not to answer the door until her mistress had keeked through the window. "She's expecting a veesitor, methinks," said Corp. This was his bright day. "Ay," answered Agnes, "but is't a man-body, or just a woman-body?" Leaving the rebels in the Lair stunned by Victoria's latest move, we now return to Thrums, where Miss Ailie's excited state had indeed been the talk of many.
A man-body never kens what goes on under his nose, though he'd be keen enough to find out if anything went wrong. It's the day I clean my candlesticks and brasses. They don't go on shining by themselves, whatever ye may think." "Candlesticks and brasses!" George Elgood repeated the words with gloomy emphasis, fixing the speaker with reproachful eyes. "Candlesticks and brasses!
I couldna tell ye hoo the story aboot the farm's bein' haunted rose, to begin wi', but I mind fine hoo fleid I was; ay, an' no only me, but every man-body an' woman-body on the farm. It was aye late 'at the soond began, an' we never saw naething, we juist heard it. The masons said they wouldna hae been sae fleid if they could hae seen't, but it never was seen.
Now I deny myself nothing. I make Lemuel fetch and carry without remorse, from morning till night. I never knew it before, but the man-body seems never to be tired, or ill, or sleepy." "Yes," said Sewell, "that is often the idea of the woman-body. I'm not sure that it's correct." "Oh, don't attack it!" implored Miss Vane. "You don't know what a blessing it is.
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