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And after a few solemn moments, Bob caught the girl in his arms and smacked her lips loudly: "Now, gal, I reckon I got yer!" he cried; and whites and blacks broke into jolly laughter, and the music of fiddles rose in the kitchen, where there was a feast for Bob's and Molly's friends. Rose, too, the music of fiddles under the stairway in the hall, and Mrs.
"'I think it is a pity to wait so long, said the first Predikant, 'for never shall we sleep in peace until the red-hot pot is on his head. "'First the victory, then the feast, answered the second Predikant, 'though he will not be so good to eat as that fat young woman who was with the new queen. "Then, Baas, they both smacked their lips and one of them went back towards the hut.
"Heaven knows what you'll think of me! But.... But, Elinor, I'll swear I never thought of her until this very moment!" His wife very nearly went over backwards. She had thought she was getting used to Ross, and had been sure she was quite prepared for anything he might do or say that smacked of the unusual, which seemed to be one of his peculiar gifts; but this far surpassed anything yet.
'God greet, he said, and tossed off the liquor in a trice. 'Luck! he exclaimed again, as he smacked his lips. 'Why do you say luck, in that way? asked the good woman. 'I will tell you, Frau Berbel, answered Wastei, lowering his tone. 'It is the new coat that brought me luck to-day. 'It is a good coat, observed Berbel, in her usual manner.
If the grubs gave out in one tree it swam to another; and as for fish, the very opulence of the supply was an embarrassment. And finally, when it was thirsty it smacked its chops in gratitude over a blend that would have slain a crocodile.
"There are other nights," whined the Burman, "many of them in the passing of a year. When I have the knowledge of thee, then may I seek and find later." He rubbed his knees with an indescribable gesture of mean cringing. The Chinese boy drank from the bottle and smacked his lips. "Hear, then, thou convict," he said in a shrill hectoring voice.
Stirn, as he waved and smacked a great cart-whip which he held in his hand, "making such a hullabaloo, you women, you! that I suspect the squire will be sending out to know if the village is on fire. Go home, will ye?
"To the Lady of Grogzwig!" shouted the Lincoln greens; and down their four-and-twenty throats went four-and-twenty imperial pints of such rare old hock, that they smacked their eight-and-forty lips, and winked again. "The fair daughter of the Baron Von Swillenhausen," said Koeldwethout, condescending to explain. "We will demand her in marriage of her father, ere the sun goes down tomorrow.
But though they pursued the subject relentlessly none of them seemed able to generate an idea that smacked of originality. "Aw, say, fellows, this will never do," said Babe Wilson. "We can't compete in this contest. We don't know anything about chemistry or things like that. Why, we don't even know a Brown Tail moth when we see one."
With all sail set, he careened on his inconsiderate way, and the vessels whose side he sought were never those bearing the signals of distress. Mr. Hiram Orme had a high contempt for all working men, and a keen suspicion of every attitude which smacked of liberty. The working man, like the negro, was happier far in a state of semi-slavery such was the honest view of the honest man.
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