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Had they not already received one chastisement in Barnes's punishment, and Lady Clara's awful falling away? They had taught her a lesson, which the Colonel's lamentable errors had confirmed, the vanity of trusting in all earthly grandeurs!
Why shouldn't mother have them? She's going to take a house, she says. Let's hand them all over to her!" Lady Barnes's lips trembled with indignation. "The Trescoes who were born and died in this house, belong here!" The tone of the words showed the stab to feeling and self-love. "It would be a sacrilege to move them." "Well then, let's move ourselves!" exclaimed Daphne, springing up.
Perhaps the only person in the hall who was not either shouting or screaming, according to sex, was Norah's mother; and the cloud on her face lightened when she saw Norah coming to her on Pat Barnes's arm and Pat's face aglow. Freda saw them too; she slipped her hand into her father's arm. "Liebchen!" said he, stroking it with his rough fingers, "I will get thee a watch some day, never fear!"
They'll be lounging about, looking as limp as a strap out of gear, till they've got the ale in them, and then they're all for swearing and shouting up and down the lanes." "I can't deny," said Johnson, "that you teetottallers have the best of it in many ways. It's a bad bringing-up for childer to see such goings- on as is in Barnes's house."
For the sailors, with the exception of Farragut, Barnes's "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors" will suffice; though every boy will enjoy reading Maclay's "History of the American Navy," where the story of our great sea-fights is told better than it has ever been told before.
Mr F.'s Aunt, after regarding the company for ten minutes with a malevolent gaze, delivered the following fearful remark: 'When we lived at Henley, Barnes's gander was stole by tinkers. Mr Pancks courageously nodded his head and said, 'All right, ma'am. But the effect of this mysterious communication upon Clennam was absolutely to frighten him.
My dear, you have given me something to look forward to. You can't guess what good you have done me! It is just as if you had shown me light at the end of the thicket; ay, and made yourself the good stout staff to lead me through!" "Mother, that's the best thing that ever was said to me yet; worth ever so much more than all old Barnes's money-bags." "If the others will approve!
"Rats in the wainscot," chimed in Lester. "As you like," said Barnes coloring. "Suppose we all go," said Meagle. "Start after supper, and get there about eleven. We have been walking for ten days now without an adventure except Barnes's discovery that ditchwater smells longest.
The midnight express from the north did not stop at Crowndale, he had learned upon inquiry, and it was the only train touching the town between nightfall and dawn. The register bore the name of Thomas Moore, Hornville. There was not the slightest doubt in Barnes's mind that this was the man who had been detailed to shadow the luckless Peter.
I guess I'll have to try New York er some of the big cities," said Peter, confidently. An idea was taking root in Barnes's brain, but it was too soon to consider it fixed. "You say Mr. Loeb is new at his job?" "Well, he's new up here. Mr. Curtis was down to New York all last winter bein' treated, you see. He didn't come up here till about five weeks ago.
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