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Swipes turned helplessly to his room-mate. "Look here, Spuddy, help a fellow, will you? Just give me my pyjamas." "Get them yourself!" retorted Preston, shoving Dillon into his bed-chamber. "It's a nice mess we're in with the 'Parson' gone." With a disgusted kick at Swipes he left him reeling desperately once more. Dillon swayed forward from the center of the room toward the doorway.
No, for certain he dothn't. One of his big lies about me was a letter I wrote to poor Jonadab." With her courage renewed by the sense of that wrong, she opened the door, and stood facing Mr. Swipes, with a piece of paper in her hand, which a woman's quick wit bade her fetch from her pocket.
And with all the work there is upon this place, the Lord only knows when I may be requiring of it. Ah! I never see the like; I never did. And a blade of grass the wrong way comes down on poor old Swipes!" Hereupon the master, having done his duty, was relieved from overdoing it, and went on other business with a peaceful mind. The feelings, however, of Mr.
Your beef is excellent, he said to my father, who in vain endeavoured to resume his legal disquisition; 'but something highly powdered and the twopenny is undeniable; but it is small swipes small swipes more of hop than malt-with your leave, I'll try your black bottle.
You recall the tabby-cat system, do you not? two swipes over the brow with the moistened paw, one forward swipe over each ear, a kind of circular rubbing effect across the face and call it a day! Drowning must be the most frightful death that a Parisian sidewalk favorite can die. It is not so much the death itself it is the attendant circumstances.
But Bob Still would not have pronounced it so; for this stripes, as I learned, was a sort of cheap substitute for beer; or a bastard kind of beer; or the washings and rinsings of old beer-barrels. But I do not remember now what they said it was, precisely. I only know, that swipes was my abomination.
'Look here, my son, said the captain, 'this is business, and don't you make any mistake about it. If you're going to make trouble, you can have it your own way and stop right here. Only get the thing right: if Herrick and I go, we take the beer. Savvy? 'Oh, I don't want to shove my oar in, returned Huish. 'I'll cut right enough. Give me the swipes.
"And I worry my old head about the secrets undiscoverable," he resumed, "until I grow tired and want to forget, and so I drink swipes, and go fishing, and sing old songs, and dream I am a lark bird singing in the sky. I like that best of all, and often I dream it when I have drunk much swipes . . . " In great dejection of mood he peered down into the lagoon through the water-glass.
Swipes would reply, after wiping his forehead, as if his whole mind were perspired away, "though I don't pretend to say how far true it may be, that all the land of England is to be cultivated for the public good, same as on the continence, without no propriety or privacy, my lord. But I don't altogether see how they be to do it. So I thought I'd better ask your lordship." "For the public good!
So be it!" cried the clerk, who was far behind, being only a shoemaker. Then Parson Bowden read some verses from the parish Bible, telling us to lift up our eyes, and look upon the fields already white to harvest; and then he laid the Bible down on the square head of the gate-post, and despite his gown and cassock, three good swipes he cut off corn, and laid them right end onwards.
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