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Here, at the loo-table places were eagerly snapped up, Henry Ocock and his stepmother being among the first to secure seats: both were keen, hard players, who invariably re-lined their well-filled pockets. It would not have been the thing for either Mahony or his wife to take a hand; several of the guests held aloof.
But their distressed appearance did not arouse the slightest feeling of pity among their tormentors. Being too late for the meal they were re-lined up, and under a changed guard were marched back again to the scene of their morning's labour. Naturally, upon reaching the pit, they concluded that they would have to continue the excavation.
These preliminaries completed, preparations for our transference to Ruhleben were hurried forward. We packed up our belongings, together with all the food upon which we could place our hands, and re-lined up. Under a strong guard we were marched to Cologne station.
One honest man is better than two rogues; and if thou keepest thine eyes open, the devil himself stands small chance of cheating thee! So I buttoned up my coat this very coat I have on now, only that I have re-lined and re-cuffed it since then, and changed the buttons for brass ones; and brass buttons for one's holiday coat, you know, look so much more comme il faut and said to the landlord...."
The owner at last breaks in with the remark that a violin maker residing where he lately came from had told him that the instrument would never go properly unless the back was re-lined that was perhaps the term used.
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