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"Plaize, yer 'onner," said he, addressing Larkyns, who was still caterer of the mess and the senior in rank of those present, as he was twanging away at his banjo with infinite zest, "the docthor sez if ye can't be aisy he axes ye to be as aisy as ye can."
Been far enough, an that be all. Well, father, and how do all at home? how does brother Dick, and brother Val? Sir Sampson. Dick! body o' me, Dick has been dead these two years. I writ you word when you were at Leghorn. Ben. Mess, that's true; Marry, I had forgot. Dick's dead, as you say Well, and how? I have a many questions to ask you
They were surprised to find something that they needed, something that made life simpler and gentler for them, something uplifting. "We're a queer mess of Puritans," reflected Randolph Fitts. "You know that parrot of old Bob Carr's? Well, he took it out and wrung its neck last night, after all the time, and trouble, and patience he spent in giving her a swell private education.
'I ought to have gone and seen 'er myself, I was afraid you'd make a mess of it, he added in a wailing tone. 'It's always the same; everything that I don't attend to myself goes wrong. An uncomfortable silence fell.
Doubleday says he thinks he did it because I am a bit of a fool, and he wants the pleasure of seeing me in a mess over the account." Jack laughed. "Doubleday is always flattering somebody," said he. "Never mind; it may be only fancy on my part after all." Jack wanted to get to his books that evening, but I dissuaded him. "It can do no good," said I, "and it may just muddle you for to-morrow.
The only bit of good the Boche ever did I fancy, for the shock seemed to cure him and he got well from that moment. The others were in an awful mess, and practically every man's bed was full of broken glass. You can imagine what it meant getting this out when the patients were suffering from typhoid, and had to be moved as little as possible!
"But ye came all these miles to New York to pull her out of the mess she had got into with that man who's ruined yer home, and ye out in the cold without a cent and ye forgave her for that and now that she's locked up with only herself to suffer, ye turn yer back on her and leave her to fight it out alone." "I did not forgive HER, Mrs. Cleary," he said in deliberate tones.
At length the tiger began to treat the dog with more deference, and not only allowed him to partake of the mess of rice and milk furnished daily for his subsistence, but even refrained from any attempt lo disturb him. The two animals at length became reconciled to each other, and a strong attachment was formed between them.
"I tell you people," he said to his congregation, "we's goin' to have a reg'lar 'Benjamin's mess'!" The coloured folk, being not quite sure of the quotation, laughed heartily, exclaiming in admiration of their pastor, "Dat Todbu'y is sholy one mess hisse'f."
"I don't think you have cooked it quite enough," said Clara, looking into the woman's face, half with fear and half with pity, and putting, as she spoke, her pretty delicate finger down into the nasty daubed mess of parboiled yellow flour. "Cooked it!" said the woman scornfully.
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