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"We never disturb our window," said the man, "but we keep the same article in the shop." "Don't you be took in by that, Mrs. Morony," said Miss Biles. "I don't mane," said Mrs. Morony. "I shall insist, sir " Now was the moment in which, as Jones felt, the interference of the general himself was necessary. Mrs.
Inside the inn the innkeeper was drawing a pint of ale for his one solitary customer, a shambling countryman with a shock of very red hair, and eyes of innocent blue. "There, that makes a quart, Tummus Biles, and 'tis as much as your turnip head can safely carry." He passed the can across the bar on a hook that projected from a wooden socket in his sleeve. "Why, now, Mr.
They went back to where the others were standing, talking in undertones: and one said Sue could not hear which "She's his wife, I suppose?" "Some say Yes: some say No," was the reply from the charwoman. "Not? Then she ought to be, or somebody's that's very clear!" "They've only been married a very few weeks, whether or no." I wonder Biles and Willis could think of such a thing as hiring those!"
Leigh. "But tell me, Belle, what made you leave the Graingers? I thought you were a fixture there." "Yes'm, I reckon I'd be living there yit, if 'twarn't fur ole Marse Andrew. He done sassed me too much, Miss Sally. Aunt Judy she say, 'Better stay whar de pot biles hardes', Belle, but I couldn't stan' ole Marse Andrew." "I had forgotten about Aunt Judy. Is she still living?" asked Mrs. Leigh.
Marony, which was still convulsed violently by her efforts to pummel Mr. Jones. "I believe he's well nigh killed her; I believe he has," said Miss Biles. Then, at last, the discreet youth returned with three policemen, and the fight was at an end. That the victory was with Mrs. Morony nobody could doubt.
It was Tummus Biles, the tranter, who had driven a tall stranger from Chester to the present spot, and whose indignation at being miscalled Jehu had only been appeased by a quart of strong ale. On the other side of the fireplace, curled up on a settle, and also asleep, lay the black boy, Scipio Africanus.
He'd stood losin' family and fortune and had stood biles but the seven days' visitation and the "I told-you-sos" and the advice of well wishers wuz too much for him. And Solomon's talk to Miss Sheba and hem to him. And Daniel's talk by the deep waters, and mebby the Great Voice that said to him: "Understand!"
Biles in the yard mending the valve of his pump; and when the judge made a jocular remark to the effect that the dairy must be in a bad way when the pump was out of order, Mr. Biles, rising with his hammer in his hand, said, "Oh, I ain't going to deny that we water the milk. I don't mind the joking about it.
He knows how to obtain bumblebees' honey, paying for this information with an ear like a garnet potato, one of the sort that "biles up meller;" and he knows how to find mushrooms. He brings this treasure home. He inverts the mushroom-cups in a clean frying-pan, fills each one with butter and a pinch of salt, cooks them gently a few minutes dishes them.
"I mean you want to have the water bilin' hot when you put him in," he explained. "Wait till she biles up good and then souse him; see?" "I guess so. How do you know when he's done?" "Oh er I can't tell you. You'll have to trust to your instinct, I cal'late. When he looks done, he IS done, most gen'rally speakin'." "Dear me! how clear you make it.
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