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But when he was alone with the hostess he said: "Now, pretty Madeleine, you know the difference between a Swiss and a gentleman. As for you, you have acted like a barmaid. So much the worse for you, for by such conduct you have lost my esteem and my patronage. I have driven away the Swiss to humiliate you, but I shall lodge here no longer. I will not sleep where I must scorn. Ho, there, boy!
Have you ever seen a body of fresh water, ruffled by a sudden gust of wind, the cool blue-green tint which follows? Then you have seen the color of Gretchen's eyes. Have you ever seen ripe wheat in a sun-shower? Then you have seen the color of Gretchen's hair. All in all, I was forced to admit that, from an impartial and artistic view Gretchen the barmaid was far more beautiful than Phyllis.
But let him go to which extreme he may, sir, there's a young lady in both of 'em. Mrs. Crupp shook her head in such a determined manner, that I had not an inch of vantage-ground left. 'It was but the gentleman which died here before yourself, said Mrs. Crupp, 'that fell in love with a barmaid and had his waistcoats took in directly, though much swelled by drinking. 'Mrs.
'How could I face his wife if I went home without him? asked Andy, 'or any of his old mates? The Boss got himself turned out of the pub. where the barmaid was, and then he'd hang round the other pubs., and get drink somehow, and fight, and get knocked about. He was an awful object by this time, wild-eyed and gaunt, and he hadn't washed or shaved for days.
Rapidly she approached the slovenly barmaid who stared half in envy, half in hate, at her more fortunate sister. "Have you seen a tall, well-dressed man here, but a minute since," she asked, "who met another and went away with him?" The girl answered in the affirmative, but could not tell which way the two had gone.
Hoopdriver whispered the badinage natural to the occasion, at which she was coquettishly shocked. "There'll be no knowing which is which, in a year or two," said the barmaid. "And her manner too! She got off her machine and give it 'im to stick up against the kerb, and in she marched. 'I and my brother, says she, 'want to stop here to-night.
He never took off his hat in the presence of his fellow-men; and as he never encountered the fair sex, except in the person of the barmaid at a sporting public, he was not called upon to unbonnet himself in ceremonious obeisance to lovely woman. He was eminently a mysterious man, and seemed to enjoy himself in the midst of the cloud of mystery which surrounded him.
He would have married a barmaid, if necessary, for the same reason. He was not long in finding out that he owed his unpopularity in a great measure to his marriage. To the curious observer this consciousness of his mistake was conspicuous in his manner. Nevill Tyson was the loveliest woman in Leicestershire, when everybody knew that his wife had flatly refused to call on her.
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.
When the men saw he did not care a button whether his grindstones revolved or not, they soon brought the defaulters to book. Bayne was sent upstairs, to beg Mr. Little to advance the trade contributions, and step the amount from the defaulters' wages. This being settled, Little and Bayne went to the "Cutlers' Arms," and Bayne addressed the barmaid thus, "Can we see Mary Anne?" "He is shaving."
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