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And for the other genuine articles, I don't know that much of the tea comes from China and the coffee is sold ground, because it is burnt maize and there's a plenty of wholesome cabbage leaf cut up in the tobacco while as for snuff, I give them a dry, peppery, choky, sneezy dust, and I dare say that it does its duty." It was astonishing how innocently the worthy couple laughed together.
I am not paid, sir, to answer question like that." Swithin said faintly: "You're a peppery fool! Open a bottle of champagne!" Adolf took a bottle of champagne from a cupboard and held nippers to it. He fixed his eyes on Swithin. "The doctor said " "Open the bottle!" "It is not " "Open the bottle or I give you warning." Adolf removed the cork.
For a whole day he moped, roaming restlessly about the high slopes and refusing to eat, till at last he got so hungry that he just had to eat. Then he began to forget his grief a little, and devoted himself to the business of finding a living. But from being the most sunny-tempered of cubs he became all at once as peppery as could be.
We could not afford even a wash-hand basin and jug; Gertie, the boys, and myself had to perform our morning ablutions in a leaky tin dish on a stool outside the kitchen door, which on cold frosty mornings was a pretty peppery performance: but this room contained everything dear to the heart of girlhood.
As for the Countess, his way was hers, her way was his; he could not bear to think of losing her. She was big, she was great, she drew him by the spell of some strange magic. The peppery old man who, with Doret's help, had defied the miners' meeting approached him to inquire: "Say, why didn't old Tom come back with you from Linderman?" "Old Tom?" "Sure! Old Tom Linton. We're pardners.
"What do you expect? What she wants is the least dose of prussic acid. She's a burden to herself." "It's funny that if you venture to hint to Mrs. Povey that the dog is offensive she gets quite peppery," said Lily. "Well, that's very simple," said Dick. "Don't hint, that's all! Hold your nose and your tongue too." "Dick, I do wish you wouldn't be so absurd."
For Pilkings & Son had a rather élite clientele for Sixth Avenue, and Father had with his own hands made glad the feet of the Swedish consul and the Bolivian trade agent. A man from South Bromfield started to cap the pose, as low persons always do in these boarding-houses, but Father changed the subject, in a slightly peppery manner.
"You should have knocked that blasted quarantine's head off!" "You've said that several times already, Mr. MacKenzie," I put in, having a touch of his own peppery temper from my mother's side. "What about Adderly's rage?" "Adderly's been in Montreal since the night of the row. For the Lord's sake, boy, do you expect to find the woman by believing in that bloated bugaboo?" "But the Citadel paper?"
Quoth she to him, a-setting of her little black pate to one side, and of her little brown arms akimbo quoth she, "Since the Lord hath not made me a lad," quoth she, "I cannot more than act like one; and so I will do!" Quoth he, "Thou hast a sour name, a bitter tongue, and a peppery temper, jade; and the two last be not gifts o' the Lord."
It made the round trip from Bemis every day, fifty-two miles over all, and considering the roadbed and the engine, that was a good day's work. "Well, that train was worth four hundred and thirty dollars all right enough, if they could have got their hands on it, but the engineer was such a peppery chap that nobody ever wanted to bother him.
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