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Adrian called back, and coming close to him, added, "You look as if you had just been well thrashed." "Isn't it dreadful, sir?" snuffled Benson. "And his father in ignorance, Mr. Hadrian!" "He shall know, Benson! He shall know how, you have endangered your valuable skin in his service. If Mr. Richard had found you there just now I wouldn't answer for the consequences." "Ha!"
Matilda had already started for the door. She paused, hesitant, with the knob in her hand. "But you, ma'am," she faltered, "can you ever forgive me for the way I deceived you?" Mrs. De Peyster tried to look severe, yet relenting. "I'll try to overlook it, Matilda." "Thank you, ma'am," snuffled Matilda; and very humbly she went out. At two o'clock of the fifth night Matilda stole into Mrs.
It isn't every woman would have done it," said Kelly the Postman. "Aw, we've mighty boys of women deese days we have dough," snuffled the constable, and then they all laughed together. Pete watched their wheedling, fawning, and whisking of the tail, and then he said, "Chut!
All of it.” Mrs Verloc spread out with care the scanty table-cloth, got two knives and two forks out of the table drawer, and suddenly stopped in her methodical proceedings. “What did you do that for?” “May want it soon,” snuffled vaguely Mr Verloc, who was coming to the end of his calculated indiscretions.
"She's right," said a shrill voice. "He deserves it," snuffled a nasal one. "At least let us drive him out of the town," said a third gruff voice. "To his house!" cried a fourth voice, that pealed over all. "To his house!" came then from countless hungry throats. "Come, let us go," whispered Fatimah to Naomi, and again she laid hold of her arm to force her away.
She had handed him a large tumbler filled to the brim; he put it to his nostrils, snuffled in the flavour, and then applying it to his mouth, removed it not whilst one drop of the fluid remained.
So, little by little, John Shadrack's widow grew on me, till I saw her a square little old woman, with a wrinkled, brown face, a perpetual smile and a pipe that snuffled in a homely, comfortable way. I smiled. You couldn't help smiling when Mrs. John Shadrack looked down at you. "It's been such a treat to have you," she cried. "I've been enjoyin' every minute of your visit." This was puzzling.
Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them? Would it not have been better it would have been better for them to have taken off half their noses from the middle upwards, even though they'd have snuffled when they spoke, than to have put beards on them? I'll bet they have not the means of paying anybody to shave them."
Again, their red faces were covered with drops of melted snow; the drops ran down their cheeks like bitter tears of humiliation; they breathed heavily, they snuffled, and I felt that they kept walking a little faster, as if they wanted this very day to arrive in that fairy land. "We are no longer prisoners and soldiers; we are simply seven Russians.
At last the river came in sight, growing slate-colour in the earliest dawn. I could see the boat nuzzling up against the pier, and snoring in its sleep. I said to myself that this was Styx and the fare an obolus. As I jumped on board, with hot face and hotter heart, Charon clicked his signal to the engines, the boat slowly snuffled itself half awake, and we shoved out into the sleepy water.
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