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Tuesday, August 14. After having rode over the top of it for about six miles, we descended by a very steep and dangerous road, the bed of a great part of which was composed of ironstone rock: very few persons ever venture to ride down it; for, in case a mule should lose its footing, both the animal and its rider would be hurled down a precipice, so gigantic, that the state of their remains could not even be ascertained.
Procter spoke: "Bring the high chair into the kitchen, Suzanna, near the window for the baby; then we'll start cleaning." Suzanna obeyed reluctantly. She turned from the window. "Mother," she said, "when I'm grown up I'll have no steady days for anything." "What do you mean?" asked Mrs. Procter. "Well, I won't wash on Monday, and iron on Tuesday, and clean on Wednesday, and bake on Thursday.
"That looks very much as if it was meant for Cruden," said Harker "all except the name. If it is, that was Tuesday he was remanded, and to-day is the day he is to be brought up again. Oh, why didn't we know this before?" "Yes. I knew I was to blame. I knew it all along," said Booms, taking every expression of regret as a personal castigation.
"'You call me "Sclaggsee" oncet more, and I won't leave nothin' of you but a rim, says I. 'As for the other proposition, it goes Tuesday next. Jimmy Holt's place, I put you in hand fifty dollars, you cock-eyed, yaller, mispronouncin' blasphemy on a heathen idol!
"Father sent them out to our country place Tuesday afternoon; they annoyed our our guest, Mrs. Brewster." "In what way?" "By barking 'they are noisy dogs." "And yet they did not arouse the household when Mr. Turnbull broke into the house" Coroner Penfield regarded her sternly. "How do you account for that?"
I answered directly that being out of town I could not call immediately, but would not fail to do so as soon as I returned to London. I returned to London on the afternoon of Monday, the 9th, and called in Bruton Street about 11 A.M. on Tuesday the 10th. I thought Mr. Greville looked thin, but not ill, and he was free from gout. He said, however, that he was seriously unwell in other ways.
Bingley and his sisters came to give their personal invitation for the long-expected ball at Netherfield, which was fixed for the following Tuesday. The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and repeatedly asked what she had been doing with herself since their separation. To the rest of the family they paid little attention; avoiding Mrs.
She only got angry once when he pulled a strand of her hair while trying to force a kiss from her. Towards the end of June, Coupeau lost his liveliness. He became most peculiar. Gervaise, feeling uneasy at some of his glances, barricaded herself in at night. Then, after having sulked ever since the Sunday, he suddenly came on the Tuesday night about eleven o'clock and knocked at her room.
But it'll be about the first and the last visit. And as for bringing those dowdy girls out in London, it's the last thing I shall think of doing. Indeed, I doubt whether they can afford to dress themselves." As she went up to bed on the Tuesday evening, Miss Macnulty doubted whether the match would go on.
I directed the bird to be killed for supper, and the blood to be given to three of the people who were the most distressed for want of food. The body, with the entrails, beak, and feet, I divided into 18 shares, and with an allowance of bread, which I made a merit of granting, we made a good supper, compared with our usual fare. Tuesday 26. Fresh breezes from the south-east with fine weather.
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