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Uncle John was a bachelor of fifty-five, possessing twelve thousand pounds, a strong disinclination to part with any of them, a good heart, and a bad temper. "Good morning t' ye, good folks; as usual, I perceive, billing and cooing." The Bagshaws had by this time got together in a corner of the garden, and were lovingly occupied in trimming the same pot of sweet peas.
"If we knew how you arrived at whatever statement you made about young Kerrigan's wife we'd be in a better position to judge what has to be done about it, Start off now at the moment when you went away in the motor-car. You went to Doyle's farm, I suppose, as I told you, so as to show Mr. Billing the General's birthplace."
Hence it is to be hoped that passengers in railway trains will not remain content with gloating down upon the unappetising sins of which the forty-seven thousand are accused by Mr Pemberton Billing. Steep and perilous is the ascent of virtue, and the British public may well be grateful to Mr Billing and Mr Bottomley if they help it with voice or outstretched hand to climb to the snowy summits.
But the wisdom of the ages tells us that the only thing to do to vice is to fly from it. Lot's wife was a lady who looked round once too often to see what was happening to the forty-seven thousand. Let Mr Billing and Mr Bottomley beware. Their interest in the Cities of the Plain will turn them into pillars of salt a thousand years before it turns them into pillars of society.
"Are you referring to the two femmes I was just billing?" shot out Dodge impetuously. "Oh, they're very inconsequential girls!" Mr. Furlong drew himself up very straight, his eyes flashing fire. "You dog!" he exclaimed, in utter disgust. Yearling Dodge turned ghastly white. "You -you didn't understand me. Let me explain," he urged. "You can't explain a remark like yours," muttered Mr.
Between two of the guns they were fondly at play, All billing and kissing, forgetting all sorrow "Love, like cash," says I, "Nan, may all go in a day, While you hug him so close don't forget there's to-morrow."
Paris is not easily excited over an intrigue conducted according to the established codes by which the intriguers bury their heads in the sand, as a form of pretence that nobody knows that they are billing and cooing beneath the sand, though of course everybody knows it, and they know that everybody knows it, except possibly the one other person most interested.
Other visitors included his sister- in-law, for whom he had a great distaste, and some of the worst-behaved children in the street. "It's only high spirits," said Mrs. Billing; "all children are like that. And I do it to help the mothers." "And 'cos you like children," said her husband, preserving his good- humour with an effort.
"And what about telling lies?" demanded his wife. "What would your Mr. Purnip say to that?" "You do as you're told," exclaimed the harassed Mr. Billing. "I'm not going to tell 'em; it's you." Mrs. Billing returned to the parlour, and, with Mr.
It was proposed by the brothers Billing, tenants of the Hall, and adopted by a majority of votes, that a stick should be put firmly in the ground, in the middle of the room, and that they should dance around it in a ring till it fell from its erect position. The way in which it fell was to indicate the direction in which the two emigrants were to go.
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