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It 'ud seem to come in wi' the probability of things as they might have had a sort of a shortness betwixt 'em, and parted." "Theer was nobody after her here but Ezra Gold," said Sennacherib. "Nobody. I niver heard, howsever, as they got to be hintimate enough to quarrel. But as for Paganyni, that's rubbidge. The man played regular till Rachel Blythe left the parish, and then he stopped."
"Burning up your awld aunt's rubbidge, I suppose? Ay; a lot gets heaped up in nooks and corners when you've lived eighty years in one house."
'Writing a parcel o' rubbidge for fools to speak, and other fools to laugh at. 'It was Shakespeare's trade, Mary, said Armstrong. 'It's a pretty far cry from our Paul to Shakespeare, I reckon, said the mother with sudden dryness. 'I suppose it is, said Paul, laughing; 'but there are degrees in every calling. Wait a bit I don't mean that you shall be ashamed of me.
Mercy's head fell back, and an expression of supreme exhaustion came over the face. Half an hour passed. Bobby was called down to dinner. The doctor had been sent for. The silent sisters were alone. Suddenly Mercy sat up with a jerk. "It be growin' dark, Tom," she said hoarsely, "'haint it time to call the cattle home from the ma'shes?" "She's talkin' rubbidge again," said Honor, chokingly.
"No, sir! we don't wait, and we don't go trav'lin'. We stay at home and call a meetin'." The door opened, and Bonsor and the bar-tender, with great difficulty, forced their way in. They stood flattened against the wall. During the diversion McGinty was growling disdainfully, "Rubbidge!" "Rubbidge? Reckon it's pretty serious rubbidge."
Egg set down the milk glass swiftly, saying, "Why, Sadie!" "He he says he's your father, Mis' Egg." After a moment Mrs. Egg said, "Stuff and rubbidge! My father ain't been seen since 1882. What's the fool look like?" "Awful tall kinda skinny bald " A tremor went down Mrs. Egg's back. She walked through the sitting room and into the sunny hall. The front door was open.
I know as you was allays fond on him, an' I hope the young man 'll do well. I've often said to Samson as it was all rubbidge, a-keepin' up a old quarrel like that, as keeps two dacent fam'lys at daggers drawn. Theer, theer, let Julia get you a cup o' tay, an' let's talk o' somethin' cheerful. 'I'll go and send it in to you, said Julia.
"Sure and you'll be after rotting your poor brain with all that rubbidge," she said, rising to a more vehement protest when, in the middle of the night, she discovered Gabrielle fallen asleep with an open copy of Don Juan beside her pillow and a spent candle flaring within an inch of the lace bed-curtains.
'I'd ha' yo' to know, Amos Entwistle, that I'm noan in yor catechism class, an' I'm noan baan to be. Yo' can tak' an' praitch yor rubbidge somewheer else. Yo've no occasion to come to me, I con tell yo'. And then, looking down at the reposeful little face, she kissed it, and continued, 'Did he co thee an idol, my darlin'? Ne'er heed him, owd powse ud he is!
And masterly was that inspiration that made Joseph chorus to a drama that moves above good and evil. "'Thank Hivin for all!" says Joseph. "'All warks togither for gooid, to them as is chozzen and piked out fro' the rubbidge.
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