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Updated: May 23, 2025
The porridge WILL be awk'ard now and then: if it's wrong, it's summat in the meal, or it's summat in the milk, or it's summat in the water. Look at me!
There's a turn at the foot o' the stairs; most awk'ard." "I reckon," said Captain Cai cheerfully, "'Bias an' me'll leave that to them as it concerns. But, man! what a turn you've a-got for funerals!" "They be the breath o' life to me," Mr Philp confessed, and paused for a moment's thought.
"Thank you, kindly; and I be willing and glad for her to learn, ma'am," replied the mother, her sharp and rather free tone subdued in spite of herself by the gentle voice of Miss Leaf. Of course, living in the same country town, she knew all about the three school-mistresses, and how till now they had kept no servant. "It's her first place, and her'll be awk'ard at first, most like.
Presently Billy returned with the same bottle, and the information that the literary neighbour had a black-ink-bottle, but as there was no ink in it he didn't think it worth while to send it. A kind offer was made of a bottle of shoe-blacking if the red ink would not do. "This is awk'ard," said Gaff, rubbing his nose. "Try some tar in it," suggested Mrs Gaff.
"'May you live long and happy years together, says the preacher, and he had a different look on his face more's if it was a pleasure instead of business he was attendin' to. "Whilest we stood there, kinder awk'ard, Charley made a high play. He gathered all his winnings in a heap. 'For laly, says he, makin' her a bow. "Maggy, she cried.
I can't abide new places mysen: things is allays awk'ard, narrow-wheeled waggins, belike, and the stiles all another sort, an' oat-cake i' some places, tow'rt th' head o' the Floss, there. It's poor work, changing your country-side." "But I doubt, Luke, they'll be for getting rid o' Ben, and making you do with a lad; and I must help a bit wi' the mill. You'll have a worse place."
"And, besides, Ethel don't know where you've been," continued Mr. Spriggs. "We told 'er that you had gone to Australia. She's going to marry a very partikler young chap a grocer and if he found it out it might be awk'ard." Mr. Price closed his eyes again, but the lids quivered. "It took 'im some time to get over me being a bricklayer," pursued Mr. Spriggs. "What he'd say to you "
There'd be too much of a row if 'twas!" "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. "Yes, I am. I've got a awk'ard job to try and worm something out of the barmaid." "Something out of the barmaid?" repeated Mrs. Bunting nervously. "Why, whatever for?" He came and stood close to her. "They think 'twas a gentleman," he whispered. "A gentleman?" Mrs.
And all of a suddent he says, the man did, "Looks to me's if you was somethin' that kind yourself, ain't ye?" "Oh, no, no, no!" whispers the shet-up posy. "I wish I was, I wish I was. I'm all right outside, humly and awk'ard, queer's I can be, but I ain't pretty inside, oh! I most know I ain't." "I ain't so sure o' that myself," says the man, "but I can tell in a jiffy."
"Terrible awk'ard mess," he kept repeating to himself, as he mopped his damp forehead with his handkerchief, "terrible awk'ard." And indeed it would be awkward for a respectable citizen with political aspirations to be accused before a grand jury of which he is a member of assault with a dangerous weapon upon an inoffensive man. Mr.
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