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The day was like none that Richard vividly remembered. It touched no link in the chain of his recollection. It was quiet, and belonged to the spirit of the season. Adrian had divined the character of the scrapings they were to meet. Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over.
As far as I can make out, it was on the extreme left of their position, while our main attack is threatening their centre. It is raining hard, but we have made a roaring fire of what is the chief fuel in this country, dry cow-dung, and have made cocoa in our mess-tins, from a tin sent me a month ago; also soup, out of the scrapings of Maconochie tins.
His intimacy with Oliver dated from one hot Sunday morning years before, when Oliver had broken in upon the old gentleman's long prayers by sundry scrapings of his finger-nails down the whitewashed wall of the school-room, producing a blood-cooling and most irreverent sound, much to the discomfort of the worshippers. "Who made that noise?" asked Mr. Stiger, when the amen was reached. "Me, sir."
And it is for the love of this woman, whose heart is so cold that I shiver only to think of it for this waif and stray, who has nothing but her ragged pride and the mere scrapings of a lost fortune, which never could compare with ours for this thankless creature, who can hardly bring herself to bid me, your mother, such a civil good-morning by Heaven it is the truth as I can say to a slave for her that I, that your parents are to be bereft of their son, the only child that a gracious Providence has left to be their joy and comfort?
Law, before speaking to me, had so strongly represented to the dealer the impossibility of selling his diamond at the price he hoped for, and the loss he would suffer in cutting it into different pieces, that at last he made him reduce the price to two millions, with the scrapings, which must necessarily be made in polishing, given in. The bargain was concluded on these terms.
The animal rubs, scratches, and licks the part. The itching is intense. The hair over the part is lost and the skin appears inflamed, thickened, moist, or covered with white crusts. Cracks and sores may form in the skin. The examination of scrapings from the inflamed skin should be practised in order to confirm the diagnosis. Mange in horses may be caused by either psoroptic or sarcoptic mites.
"But I had no hand in anything of the sort," declared Frank stoutly. "Let it pass, Frank, let it pass," chuckled Dobbins unbelievingly. "You see, when I came to look over the old ruins I come to where the old storeroom wall had busted out. You know it's always been a mystery to me what had become of my wife Sairey's scrapings and earnings?" "I've heard you tell so yes," nodded Frank.
I felt the penetrating power of the steel spur. I heard rattlings and scrapings. But the Nautilus, carried along by its propelling power, passed through the mass of the vessel like a needle through sailcloth! I could stand it no longer. Mad, out of my mind, I rushed from my room into the saloon. Captain Nemo was there, mute, gloomy, implacable; he was looking through the port panel.
Then, with a great many more bowings and scrapings, M. Le Gros, having done his business, took his leave. "I like him better than Mahomet M.," said Rachel to her father. "They're both very civil," said Mr. O'Mahony. "One has all the courtesy of hell! With the other it is well, not quite the manners of heaven. I can imagine something brighter even than M. Le Gros; but it does very well for earth.
There is a great temptation to produce the lecture entire, but this would be to invite a lawsuit, so we will have to be content with a few scrapings from the palette: Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-Loving Nation.
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