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Don't you see dat fine gentyman, De Charleu, done gone and tore him down and make him over new, you blame old fool, Charlie, you low-down old Injin dog!" "I'll give you forty thousand dollars," said the Colonel. "For de 'ouse?" "For all." The deaf man shook his head. "Forty-five!" said the Colonel. "What a lie? For what you tell me 'What a lie? I don't tell you no lie." "Non, non!
And underneath the picture is a card with a tex out of the Bible "Christ is the 'ead of this 'ouse: the unknown guest at every meal. The silent listener to every conversation." I was workin' there for three or four days and I got to know it orf by 'eart. 'Well, that takes the biskit, don't it? said Philpot.
She'd 'ave been in a terrible takin' if she'd lost 'em... And so quiet too not a sound and everyone sleepin' all round 'im. Wonderful 'ow they does it! I thank the Lord I didn't 'ear 'im; I'd 'ave died of fright-shouldn't like! Why, Cook says she knew a 'ouse once..." But Jeremy did not listen, he did not care. As Hamlet sprang about him and licked his hand he thought of one thing alone.
"'Scuse me," and Bill Bush now addressed himself immediately to Helmsley, "ef I may be so bold as to arsk you wheer ye comes from, meanin' no 'arm, an' what's yer purfession?" Helmsley looked up with a friendly smile. "I've no profession now," he answered at once. "But in my time before I got too old I did a good deal of office work." "Office work! In a 'ouse of business, ye means?
"It's a goodish step, sir." "Here you are." "Thank you, sir. I'll send up your luggage by the bus, sir. Which 'ouse was it you was going to?" "Outwood's." "Right, sir. It's straight on up this road to the school. You can't miss it, sir." "Worse luck," said Mike. He walked off up the road, sorrier for himself than ever. It was such absolutely rotten luck.
Adieu." He put his hat on and withdrew. By and by he stood, letter in hand, before the person to whom it was addressed. This person employed an interpreter. "He says," said the interpreter to the officer, "he come to make you the fair warning how you muz not make the street pas' at his 'ouse."
I do all de cookin' in dis yar ouse an' most ob de eatin' too." "By the way, Sally, what is it that you keep pounding so constantly in that that hole off the front room?" "Coffee," answered Sally, with a nod. "Indeed! Surely not the household coffee. You cannot drink such a quantity!" Sally stared for a minute; then opened her mouth, shut her eyes, threw back her head, and chuckled.
The rivers which thus empty themselves into these fens, and which thus carry off the water, are the Cam or Grant, the Great Ouse and Little Ouse, the Nene, the Welland, and the river which runs from Bury to Milden Hall. The counties which these rivers drain, as above, are as follows:
'Gad, he's beginning young, said my uncle, quite good-humouredly. ''Faith, Fagan, that boy's a Brady, every inch of him. 'And I'll tell you what, Mr. B., cried Quin, bristling up: 'I've been insulted grossly in this 'OUSE. I ain't at all satisfied with these here ways of going on.
In New England, a man would think he began under favorable auspices if he were able to enter upon the occupancy of equal extent with 100 pounds, or about $500. On returning from the Fens, I passed the night and most of the following day at Woodhurst, a village a few miles north of St. Ives, on the upland rising gently from the valley of the Ouse.
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