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In two thousand years they'll know." "But the chairs show up wonderfully. Look where Tibby spilt the soup." "Coffee. It was coffee surely." Helen shook her head. "Impossible. Tibby was far too young to be given coffee at that time." "Was Father alive?" "Yes." "Then you're right and it must have been soup.
Oh, the bowl! I am so sorry! How did it happen?" "It fell down!" said Geoffrey. Vesta was on her knees, picking up the pieces, sopping the spilt water with a towel. He regarded her with remorseful triumph. "You were singing!" he said, at length. "Was I? did I disturb you? I won't " "No! I don't mean that. I wanted to hear the words. I I threw the bowl down on purpose."
A groan instantly followed, as George spilt the whole of it. As it fell on the cloth, however, it was soon gathered up, and then Mr Sudberry ordered everyone to sit down on the grass in a circle round the cloth. "What a good boy Jacky has suddenly become!" remarked Lucy in some surprise. "Darling!" ejaculated his mother. "A very good little fellow," said Flora, with a peculiar smile.
"The taverner, running up, seeing the table knocked over, the wine spilt, and Friar Ange with one foot on the cutler's head, swinging a stool with which he struck anyone approaching him, this vile taverner swore like a real devil and called for the watch. Monsieur Menetrier, do come at once and take the little friar out of the watch's clutches.
You ought to be able to make up for a lot o' lost time and a lot o' spilt milk when that woman takes herself out o' the way and lets you and all the rest of us alone." "It's no use, father, I tell you. I know what Gurney was going to say to you. I'm not going back to the office. I'm DONE!" "Wait a minute before you talk that way!" Sheridan began his sentry-go up and down the room.
And then when Tom and I were doing our writing for Mr. Lingard that was our tutor for the next day, Tom would pull the ink close over to him, and I pulled it back to me, and we both got cross, and the end of it was that the ink was all spilt over the table; and oh! it made such a big black pool, and then little streams of it began running to the edge, and would have fallen on to the carpet.
She was standing up, cup in hand, but even as she spoke she subsided on to a footstool by Miss Briskett's side, with a sudden lithe collapse of the body, which made that good lady gasp in dismay. She had never seen anybody but a professional acrobat move so quickly or unexpectedly, and felt convinced that the tea must have been spilt, and crumbs scattered wholesale over the carpet.
"And so that little affair couldn't come off?" said Hugh at their first family meeting. "It was a pity," said Mrs. Stanbury, plaintively. She had been very plaintive on the subject. What a thing it would have been for her, could she have seen Dorothy so well established! "There's no help for spilt milk, mother," said Hugh. Mrs. Stanbury shook her head. "Dorothy was quite right," said Priscilla.
"I quite see your point. You feel that Nature always compensates us in some way, and that as " "Oh, no!" said Miss Hope in great confusion. "I didn't mean that at all." She must have meant it. You don't talk to people about singing in the middle of a game of tennis; certainly not to comparative strangers who have only spilt lemonade over your frock once before. No, no.
"He does seem to have done what you might call a finished job. H-u-u-m! . . . 'Another offensive on the er no'theast'ard front; all objectives attained. That's the way the newspapers tell such things nowadays, ain't it? . . . However, there's no use cryin' over spilt er puddin'. Lucky there's eggs and milk aboard the ship. I shan't starve, anyhow." Barbara was aghast.
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