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Herrick, we have fixed the date of the Templeton Bean-feast; Cedric will have to come back for that." "Do you think he would care to bring his friends?" he asked in rather a meaning tone. Then at this daring suggestion Elizabeth's eyes opened widely. "Do you think that would be wise, that it might not complicate matters and increase the intimacy?" Elizabeth put this question with manifest anxiety.
This wonderful letter, of which S. Cohn distributed printed copies to the staff of the Emporium with a bean-feast air, ran: 'We go out every day I am speaking of my own squadron each officer taking his turn with twenty to fifty men, and sweep round the farms a few miles out; and we seldom come back without seeing Boers hanging round on the chance of a snipe at our flanks, or waiting to put up a trap if we go too far.
Every week he wrote to his mother and also to her pleasant, chatty letters, full of affection and warm with brotherly kindness. If Anna ever shed tears over them he never knew it. With what touching humility she acknowledged his thoughtfulness! "Another letter how good you are to me!" she would say in her reply. "Mother declares that you spoil me. I read her all your description of the Bean-feast.
"This'll burn to the bone; you'll see it smoke upon 'im like 'ell-fire! One drop upon 'is bloomin' heyesight, and I'll trouble you for Attwater!" "No, no, by God!" exclaimed the captain. "Now, see 'ere, ducky," said Huish, "this is my bean-feast, I believe? I'm goin' up to that man single-'anded, I am. 'E's about seven foot high, and I'm five foot one.
We no more give evidence than those old Spanish Jews Marannos, they were called, weren't they? who wore the Christian mask for generations. Practically, many of us are Marannos still; I don't mean the Jews who are on the stage and the press and all that, but the Jews who have gone on believing. 'Our annual holiday, Stock-taking day, 'Our annual bean-feast. 'Closed for repairs."
She was literally as broad as she was high; short hair, turning grey, was fantastically curled about her clever, dark eyes; she had two hats, one for summer and one for winter, the latter a man's old seal cap; her skirts and jackets were skimp and dowdy, and her features and complexion unattractive, yet the authority and ease, the whole manner of the true lady made her a delightful companion, and she would have been equally diverting and diverted at a Royal Audience in Buckingham Palace or at a bean-feast on an Indian reserve.
Sadly shaking his head, he would say to himself: "NIHIL QUOD TETIGIT NON INQUINAVIT." Mr. Keith was apt to be a bore, but he could do things properly when he wanted, as for example on the occasion of his annual bean-feast. There were no two opinions about that.
He was a fool; he had been made drunken by a woman's face and by a woman's soft, white hands. And then, suddenly, before his eyes, on the foul plaster-wall appeared a vision. He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house. It was night-time, in the East End of London, and before him stood Margey, a little factory girl of fifteen. He had seen her home after the bean-feast.
When in after-years Malcolm Herrick reviewed this portion of his life, he owned to himself that during the five weeks that followed the Templeton Bean-feast he had lived in a fool's paradise in a state of beatitude that was as unsubstantial and fleeting as the sunset clouds that piled themselves behind the fir woods.
'Janet Coombe, a servant at the Man and Plough, is ill too, and they sent up for me this morning; it seems a touch of low fever, nothing really infectious, though; but the men from the soap-works are having their bean-feast, and all the folks are too busy to pay Janet much attention. 'I will see about her, I returned. 'Are those the only cases, Mr.
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