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It was nine o'clock. Cardigan was moving about uneasily, arranging the things on the table and adjusting the shade at the window. For a few moments, with his back to Kent, he stood without moving. Then he turned, and said: "Which will you have, Kent a wash-up and breakfast, or a visitor?" "I am not hungry, and I don't feel like soap and water just now. Who's the visitor? Father Layonne or Kedsty?"
But if I must wash-up, if I must study the idiosyncrasies of cold fat, treacly plates, frying-pans which have sizzled dripping-toast on the gas-ring, frozen gravy, and pudding-basins with burnt milk-skins filmed to their sides, I shall be comparatively undismayed. People have curious ideas of the kind of building which would make a good war hospital.
You're drunk, fellow. 'I am not drunk, your Worship, said the man. 'You ARE drunk, returned the magistrate. 'How dare you say you are not drunk, Sir, when I say you are? Doesn't he smell of spirits, Grummer? 'Horrid, your Wash-up, replied Grummer, who had a vague impression that there was a smell of rum somewhere. 'I knew he did, said Mr. Nupkins.
The wash-up, the beauty of the gold and blue southern sky, and the naive, partly submissive, partly displeased face of Liubka, as well as the consciousness that after all he was a man, and that he and not she had to answer for the porridge he had cooked all this together braced up his nerves and compelled him to take himself in hand.
They contain fifty or sixty million dollars' worth' of diamonds, and there is an abundance of enterprising thieves around. In the dirt of the Kimberley streets there is much hidden wealth. Some time ago the people were granted the privilege of a free wash-up. There was a general rush, the work was done with thoroughness, and a good harvest of diamonds was gathered.
I hated him from the beginning, feeling that he was a rogue. We harrowed the stuff down to old Lochhead's race, where we hired a water right. Our wash-up for the first week was a couple of ounces of gold. I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box. He became more and more offensive. Soon a friend of his came along and offered me 15 for my share. I accepted the offer.
The subalterns were made to carry the dishes from the kitchen, and to "wash-up" afterwards, yet I am sure that the average London hostess would have envied the jollity, the fun and high spirits that made those informal supper-parties so delightful, and would have given anything to introduce some of this cheery atmosphere into her own decorous and extremely dull entertainments, where the guests did not have to cook their own dinners.
Was the account you gave me just now strictly true? Now be careful, sir! 'Your Wash-up, stammered Grummer, 'I-' 'Oh, you are confused, are you? said the magistrate. 'Mr. Jinks, you observe this confusion? 'Certainly, Sir, replied Jinks. 'Now, said the magistrate, 'repeat your statement, Grummer, and again I warn you to be careful. Mr. Jinks, take his words down.
It was ten o'clock in the morning when they drove into Sacramento. "I think, uncle, I will just go round to my house, for I keep one regularly here, and put on the garb of civilisation. Alice would not recognise me in this red shirt and high boots." "Stuff and nonsense!" Captain Bayley said. "You had a wash-up when we breakfasted, and what do you want more?
Amid these dreadful memorials of the recent fight the party bivouacked! Next day the troops returned to Suakim, and Sutherland, after breakfast, and what he called a wash-up, went to see his friend Sergeant Hardy, with pen, ink, and paper. "Weel, serjint, hoo are ye the day?" "Pretty well, thank you pretty well. Ah!
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