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Then he took up the Infant and carefully tuned the four strings, talking easily meanwhile. "You see? You screw up the pegs so. The notes are A, D, G, C." "What have you done to your lip?" said Ronald, suddenly. "Knocked it on the stove just now, as I bent to stoke it with my fingers, for fear of waking you. It bled amazingly." Aubrey produced a much-stained handkerchief.
The compartment was a smoking one, and he and Dufrenne had it all to themselves. The little old Frenchman drew out a much-stained meerschaum pipe and began placidly to smoke it. His manner toward the detective was respectful, friendly indeed, yet he made no attempts at conversation, and seemed quite satisfied to sit and gaze out of the car window at the fields and villages as they swept by.
But as the far-seeing eyes gazed into the future, they softened until the tears mingled with Billy's on the already much-stained silken gown. "Billy-boy, we're crying. I wonder what for?" "Because," Billy's mouth was full of that silken gown; "because you and me is so plum chuck-full of happiness we're nigh to busting." "Oh! Billy, is that really it, really?" Billy looked up from his shrine.
Sponge, observed Amelia in the sweetest tone, with the most loving smile possible, as our friend, with three steps at a time, bounded upstairs, and nearly butted her on the landing, as she was on the point of coming down. 'I am that, exclaimed Sponge, delighted at the greeting; 'I am that, repeated he, slapping his much-stained cords; 'dirty, too, added he, looking down at his nether man.
Captain Quod appeared in a venerable dresscoat of the Melton Hunt, made in the popular reign of Mr. Errington, whose much-stained and smeared silk facings bore testimony to the good cheer it had seen. As if in contrast to the light airiness of this garment, Quod had on a tremendously large shaggy brown waistcoat, with horn buttons, a double tier of pockets, and a nick out in front.
Under the eye of an armed chuff, who watched them suspiciously, the wretched wanderers drank the water in silence, but without enthusiasm. Then they shuffled on down the road. At the front of the small procession a slender girl, in a much-stained sports suit, rode on a tall black horse. Beside the horse trudged a bulky man in a grotesque garb of dirty lavender quilting.
Sponge's black-daubed clothes. 'Oh no! replied Sponge. 'Oh no! fell soft fell soft. More dirt, less hurt more dirt, less hurt. 'Why, you've been in a bog! exclaimed Mr. Puffington, eyeing the much-stained Hercules. 'Almost over head, replied Sponge. 'Scamperdale saw me going, and hadn't the grace to halloa. 'Ah, that's like him, replied Mr.
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