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"He's a good landlord, I guess," continued the young woman; "anybody in the row will tell you that, and he means to keep his houses in good repair. Now you see, here's the kitchen. You see how big it is. Here's our laundry tubs, our iron sink, our boiler, and everything we want. It's all as clean as a whistle; and get on to this big cubby under the sink where I can stow away things."
Stow would have preferred a happier topic, but the major, who feared neither man nor devil, constantly turned the talk on the evil reputation of the house. While they chatted a door opened with a creak and a human skeleton appeared before them. "What do you want? Speak!" cried Ward. But waiting for no answer he drew his pistols and fired two shots at the grisly object.
I never see a house, now leastways, a house that takes my fancy but I want to be measuring it an' planning out the furnicher, an' the rent, an' where to stow the firewood, an' sitting down cosy in it along with Martha in the mind's eyes, as you may say one on each side o' the fire, an' making two ends meet. I pity any man that ends a bachelor." He glanced towards the house.
We all crammed in somehow, but Oswald saw the driver wink as he put his boot on the step, and the porter who was opening the cab door winked back, and I am sorry to say Oswald forgot that he was a high-born lady, and he told the porter that he had better jolly well stow his cheek. Then several bystanders began to try and be funny, and Oswald knew exactly what particular sort of fool he was being.
After dinner, the stage-coach made its appearance, and the passengers began to stow themselves away within it, Oscar mounted the outside, and took a seat with the driver, with whom he was soon on intimate terms. All things being ready, the horses started, at the familiar "Get up!" and they were on their way toward Brookdale.
The kid of fish was put amidships on the breakers, and the dried bird; which they carried down in their arms, were packed up neatly in the stern-sheets. They were soon up to the gunwale, and the mate said: "You had better stow away forward now there will be little room for the lady as it is." "No, no, stow them all aft," replied one of the men, in a surly tone; "the lady must sit where she can.
"We stow them away in the hold, after the manner of packing sardines in a box. We only let them out one at a time, when we feed them with salt fish and baked beans." "That makes a good many men to a gun," suggested the major. "Lots of them," answered Christy. "How many guns does the steamer carry?" "Only two hundred; of course I mean heavy guns, sixty and eighty-four pounders.
Indeed the comparison must have occurred to his own age, for a historian of the day, the antiquary Stow, declares Drake to have been "as famous in Europe and America as Tamburlaine was in Asia and Africa."
"That's what the poor brutes always complain of aren't it, Jim?" observed another keeper, who had just entered. "Where be we to stow her?" "I sent Tom to get No. 14 ready." "Why, you don't think that I'm mad!" cried Mrs Forster, with terror. "So, softly so so," said the keeper next to her, patting her, as he would soothe a fractious child.
And at that thought he was seized with a very panic of prudence, and resolved to keep out of her way; and yet the days ran slowly, and Lady Grenville when at home was stupid enough to talk and think about nothing but her husband; and when she went to Stow, and left the Don alone in one corner of the great house at Bideford, what could he do but lounge down to the butt-gardens to show off his fine black cloak and fine black feather, see the shooting, have a game or two of rackets with the youngsters, a game or two of bowls with the elders, and get himself invited home to supper by Mr.
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