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Nevertheless the English are on the watch, ready to take possession of this valuable branch of commerce. Let them prohibit the seed, says M. Reybaud, the oil will reach us mixed, in soap, or in some other way: we shall have lost the profit of manufacture.
The gendarme went out; and, as soon as the door was shut, Goudar cried with a voice full of intense disgust, "What a profession! Just look at me! What a disgrace if my wife should see me in this state! Phew!" And, pulling a handkerchief from his pocket, he wiped his face, and drew from his mouth a small piece of soap.
For such players a conscientious and exacting study of Czerny, Cramer, Clementi and others of similar design is good musical soap and water. It washes them into respectability and technical decency.
At best, life is an experiment, Death the final adventure. Feminism seems to me its next of kin; still we may not call the woman who assails the soap boxes even those that antic about the White House gates by the opprobrious terms of adventuress. Where such a one is not a lunatic she is a nuisance. There are women and women. We may leave out of account the shady ladies of history.
The rain lasted about three hours, and then cleared away as rapidly as it had come on, leaving the air beautifully fresh and pure, the sea beaten down until nothing but a long, lazy swell remained of the late breeze, and ourselves refreshed beyond description by our soap and water bath.
And still it kept raining, after cook had smeared mason's dust all over the stone floor with the wet mop, and when it had dried up and the floor looked beautiful and white white like the clean dresser and table that cook used to scrub with soap and sand as though she meant to scrub all the top off.
Even a bit of English brown soap, which had been given to Ebo a short time before, was exhibited along with the other things; for so great a degree of jealousy exists among the eunuchs and others, arising from the apprehension that one might have received more than another; that Ebo himself, powerful as he is, would dread the effects of it on his own person, should he have been found to have concealed a single thing.
"Please do. And I'll come with you. Captain Lester and the others won't be here for half an hour yet, and I want to show you some curious-looking stuff I saw on the beach this morning. It looks like dirty soap mixed with black shells, like fowl's beaks." The negro's face displayed a sudden interest. "Mixed with shells, yo' say, ma'am. Did yo' touch it?" "No it looks too unpleasant."
Then we all followed her back into the nursery, where the carpet was up and the boards smelt of soft soap. Then she said, 'It moves, it moves! Once more the choral hymn! So we sang 'Heroes' again, and in the middle the umbrella dropped from her hands.
When hog killin' time come us always have some meat lef' over from de year befo'. Us made soap out of dat. "When da war broke out I went right wid de Marster up to Corinth. I stayed up dere in de camp for de longes' time a-waitin' on de sojers an' nussing de sick ones. I never seen much o' de real fightin'. But I heard de cannons roar an' I waited on de sojers what got wounded.
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