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He pushed them towards the door; but the basket-woman whispered to them as they went out, "Wait in the street till I come to you." "Pray, Mrs. Landlady," cried this gentleman's servant, addressing himself to the landlady, who just then came out of a room where some company were at supper, "Pray, Mrs. Landlady, please to let me have roasted larks for my supper.
The eyes of the children all turned towards their mother; their mother smiled, and immediately their father called in the basket-woman, and desired her to produce her CURIOSITIES. The children gathered round her large pannier as it opened, but they did not touch any of her things.
"Dycer resumed, 'Seven ten for Mr. Moriarty. Going for seven ten a cruel sacrifice there's action for you playful beast. Here the devil had stumbled and nearly killed a basket-woman with two children. "'Eight, said I, with a loud voice.
"NO BAD HIT," was a sentence which the servant pronounced several times. Now it occurred to the basket-woman that this man had cheated the children out of the guinea to pay for the larks and claret; and she thought that perhaps she could discover the truth. She waited quietly in the passage. "Waiter! Joe!
But there is one instance, which comes exactly up to my purpose. This is the custom of sending on a basket-woman, who is to precede the pomp at a coronation, and to strew the stage with flowers, before the great personages begin their procession.
Paul and Anne were speedily summoned, and brought back by their friend the basket-woman; and Anne, the moment she saw the gentleman, knew that he was the very person who smiled upon her, who admired her brother's scotcher, and who threw a handful of halfpence into the hat; but she could not be certain, she said, that she received the guinea from him; she only thought it most likely that she did.
"Ah, papa!" cried a little rosy girl, "here are a pair of straw slippers that would just fit you, I think; but would not straw shoes wear out very soon? and would not they let in the wet?" "Yes, my dear," said her father, "but these slippers are meant " "For powdering-slippers, miss," interrupted the basket-woman.
Miss Edgeworth alone had already struck the note of a new development in her Castle Rackrent, not to mention the delightful stories in The Parents' Assistant, Simple Susan, Lazy Lawrence, or The Basket-Woman. Galt's masterpiece, The Annals of the Parish, was not yet even lying unfinished in his desk. The Mucklebackits and the Headriggs were still further distant.
"It is a fine moonlight night," said the basket-woman; "and is not far. I'll walk with you, and see you safe home myself." The gentleman detained them a few minutes longer, till a messenger whom he had dispatched to purchase the much wished for blanket returned. "Your grandmother will sleep well upon this good blanket, I hope," said the gentleman, as he gave it into Paul's opened arms.
'If the water has reached the smoking-gallery, said Janki, 'all the Company's pumps can do nothing for three days. 'It is very hot, moaned Jasoda, the Meah basket-woman. 'There is a very bad air here because of the lamps. 'Put them out, said Janki; 'why do you want lamps? The lamps were put out and the company sat still in the utter dark.
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