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This is only entered three or four times a year." "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. Thenardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth.
They have signed and sealed ten thousand pounds a year more to the Duchess of Cleveland; who has likewise near ten thousand pounds a year out of the new farm of the country excise of Beer and Ale; five thousand pounds a year out of the Post Office; and they say, the reversion of all the King's Leases, the reversion of places all in the Custom House, the green wax, and indeed what not?
By this time one of the maids who knew him had joined the cook, and also stood watching him with amusement. But when she saw the old knife drawn from his stocking, and about to be applied to the nozzle, to free it from adhering wax, it seemed more than time to break the silence.
By an easy navigation he might draw from Russia the native commodities of furs, wax, and hydromel: Hungary supplied him with a breed of horses and the spoils of the West; and Greece abounded with gold, silver, and the foreign luxuries, which his poverty had affected to disdain.
If the floor is hard wood, it must not have a slippery wax finish. It will also save tumbles if the day nursery has no rugs, but the night nursery ought to have one large one or several small ones by the beds and in front of the open fire. Washable cotton rugs are best to use for this purpose. When children are very small, it is necessary to have sides to the beds to keep them from falling out.
These very people, whom not long ago I would have acknowledged as my own kind, now seemed mildly animated automatons, wax figures. The day was like hundreds of Sundays I had known, the city familiar, yet passing strange. I walked like a ghost through it.... Accompanied by young Dr. Strafford, I went to California. My physical illness had been brief. Dr.
It is worthy of being placed between the heads of Caligula and Nero. Very near the residence of Mons. le G is the house in which Robespierre lodged. It is at the end of the Rue Florentine, in the Rue St. Honore, at a wax chandler's. This man is too much celebrated, not to render every thing which relates to him curious.
Take it, I pray you." "I will not. Do as you wish with it, James, I can trust you." Then James walked towards the table. There were wax lights burning on it, and he held it in the flame and watched it slowly consume away to ashes.
"In a word, give them all they want, and ask no questions." "Very well, monsieur." "Here are thirty livres in advance." "Well, monsieur, these gentlemen shall be treated like princes; will you assure yourself by tasting the wine?" "Thank you, I never drink." "But, monsieur, how shall I know these gentlemen?" "That is true; parfandious! I forgot. Give me paper, light, and wax."
So Art went on, "He had been there, and though it could only have been for a few seconds, he made rare hay of the place. All the manuscript had been burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes. The cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire, and the wax had helped the flames." Here I interrupted. "Thank God there is the other copy in the safe!"
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