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You can tell me if the decorations please you. He consented, and it was she who really directed the arrangements. Having climbed upon a pair of steps she bullied the girls as they came up to her in turn with their leafy contributions. 'Not so fast, now! You must give me time to fix the boughs. We can't have all these bundles coming down on his reverence's head Come on, Babet, it's your turn.
The friar emptied the glass of wine before him and again nodded. "Caramba, Padre!" exclaimed the alferez with a sarcastic laugh, pleased at the thought of a little revenge. "A few pesos of your Reverence's disappear and my sergeant is routed out early to hunt for them two sacristans disappear and your Reverence says nothing and you, señor capitan It's also true that you "
The priest took a step toward the cart, where Billeghi was still struggling with the knot. The words, "if your mother were alive," had struck him like a blow, his head began to swim, his legs to tremble. "Are you speaking of my mother?" he stammered. "Is my mother dead?" "Yes, poor woman, she has given up the ghost. I've brought your reverence's little sister; where shall I put her down?"
What d'ye lack, beauteous madam?" he said, in a tone at once bold and soothing, which often was so applied as both to gratify the persons addressed, and to excite a smile from other hearers. "God bless your reverence," to a beneficed clergyman; "the Greek and Hebrew have harmed your reverence's eyes Buy a pair of David Ramsay's barnacles.
Expressing my deep sense of the Christian-like forbearance of the party, I pleaded fatigue, and bidding him good night, adjourned to my bed-room; and here, although the arrangements fell somewhat short of the luxurious ones appertaining to my late apartment at Callonby, they were most grateful at the moment; and having "addressed myself to slumber," fell fast asleep, and only awoke late on the following morning to wonder where I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments.
When this practice had gone on for ten years, one day the badger said to the priest, "Through your reverence's kindness for all these years, I have been able to pass the winter nights in comfort. Your favours are such, that during all my life, and even after my death, I must remember them. What can I do to requite them? If there is anything that you wish for, pray tell me."
It hath an air, too. I would swear a woman had the placing of yonder painted jars!" "You are right," said Haward, smiling. "The wife of the minister of this parish was good enough to come to my assistance." "Ah!" said the Colonel dryly. "Did Atalanta come as well? She is his reverence's servant, is she not?"
"With Sandie I beg his reverence's pardon with the Rev. the padre of Drumtochty," and Kate went over and sat down beside the General to anticipate any rebellion, for it was a joy to see the warrior turning into a boy before her eyes. "Well?" "We had a royal dinner, as it seemed to me.
"Ah! that's quite enough!" he shouted to the man; "anybody would think there was some one crying; it's quite unbearable." "But it isn't me, sir," replied the beadle in a distressed manner. "It's Monsieur Granoux, he's gone up into the steeple. I must tell you that I removed the clapper of the bell, by his Reverence's order, precisely to prevent the tocsin from being sounded.
And I warrant you his Reverence's eyes twinkled as much at the bill as at the plum-porridge, and that he feigned not to see Father Ruddlestone, if perchance he met that foreign person on the staircase, or in the store-office where Mistress Nancy Talmash kept many a toothsome cordial and heart-warming strong water. This dismal Christmas none of these pleasant things were done.
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