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This Lucas was an extraordinary compound of shrewdness and recklessness, one separating from the other like oil and vinegar in a sloven's salad. He could plan and toil and wait, to an end, with skill and fortitude and patience; but he could not govern his own gusty tempers. "You have been crying, Lorance," Mayenne said in a softer tone. "For my sins, monsieur," she answered quickly.
Why, by Heaven, even now her petticoat was gaping behind, worse than the sloven's at the Red Lion. She was a pr-r-retty wife for John Gourlay! The sight of her feebleness would have roused pity in some: Gourlay it moved to a steady and seething rage. As she stood helpless before him he stung her with crude, brief irony.
Once in seven years there came a sloven's year, according to the old folk, when the sloven had a splendid crop of wheat and hardly knew where to put it. Such a harvest was as if a man had gone round his farm with the sun in one hand and the watering-pot in the other! The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.
He once mentioned this to his mother, who was much shocked. She said home-made prayers and home-made bread and home-made jam were the best. 'As for manufactured jam, it's a sloven's refuge, and no more to be said. And prayer's the same. The best printed prayer's no better than bought mixed at four-pence the pound, and a bit gone from keeping. Edward stumbled on, as Mr.
He had parked the Ford with its trailer attachment at the west end of the platform. If his partner's impedimentia was not too bulky, the ancient model was ready for another trek to the hills. Back and forth along the long brick platform he strode in the bright autumn sun. It was no sloven's gait.
No; if you can get into the way of always putting the book you read back into its place on the shelf, and the paper you want where you will be certain to find it again if you encourage a jealousy of rubbish, and a horror of dirt if you take to heart the proverb I quoted just now, "A place for everything, and everything in its place" you will be as tidy as you ever need be; and Jack Sloven's troubles and misfortunes will never be yours.
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