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Every night when the blowsy old moon shines like courting time, every day when the butcher's bill comes home as big as a swollen elephant, when the crippled stepson tries to cut his throat again, when the youngest kid sneezes funny like his father 'WHO WAS ROSIE? WHO WAS ROSIE?" "Well, who was Rosie?" persisted the Youngish Girl absent-mindedly.
Archer's heart sank at the threshold to see a man lying perhaps mortally hurt in so poor a sick-room, and as he drew near the low bed he took his hat off. The guard was a big, blowsy, innocent-looking soul with a thick lip and a broad nose, comically turned up; his cheeks were crimson, and when Mr. Archer laid a finger on his brow he found him burning with fever.
It seemed to her that the act of gravely imperilling life in order to confer life was a situation which demanded loving care and devoted attention, necessities she lacked: the refusal of blowsy landladies to entertain her application hurt her more than the other indignities that she had, so far, been compelled to endure.
They crossed the road, clinging to one another. Only Charley and Belfast wandered off alone. As I came up I saw a red-faced, blowsy woman, in a grey shawl, and with dusty, fluffy hair, fall on Charley's neck. It was his mother. She slobbered over him: "O, my boy! My boy!" "Leggo of me," said Charley, "Leggo, mother!"
The man behind the bar looked vaguely familiar to me, but I could not place him. "Where's the proprietor of this place?" I asked him. He indicated a short, blowsy, truculent-looking individual who was, at the moment, staring out the window. "There used to be an Italian " I began. The barkeeper uttered a short barking laugh as he turned to attend to a customer.
He continued upward another flight and presently found himself before two blank doors one at the front and one a little at one side. The side door opened slowly in response to his knock. Before him stood a blowsy but not altogether unprepossessing woman of middle years. She wore a cheap print gown. A gipsy scarf was thrown over her head and shoulders, and her ears held loop earrings.
Near it is a landscape, by Carel Dujardin, I believe, conceived in quite a different mood, but exquisitely poetical too. A horseman is riding up a hill, and giving money to a blowsy beggar-wench. O matutini rores auraeque salubres! in what a wonderful way has the artist managed to create you out of a few bladders of paint and pots of varnish.
"All right, cabby," he said, with pacific purpose; "you'll get your fare in half a shake." "Three 'n' six!" croaked the cabby, like a blowsy and vindictive parrot. The bobby strolled nearer. "Yes?" said Kirkwood, mildly diverted. "Why not sing it, cabby?" "Lor' lumme!" The cabby exploded with indignation, continuing to give a lifelike imitation of a rumpled parrot.
Beamish himself in a freak of his gaiety, was once popular enough to provoke the moralist to animadversions upon an order of composition that 'tempted every bouncing country lass to sidle an eye in a blowsy cheek' in expectation of a coronet for her pains and a wet ditch as the result! We may doubt it to have been such an occasion of mischief.
All the other boys were for turning back and hunting about Fingal's Creek again, all except Bud. Such a pink and white boy he was, with a dimple in each cheek and a blowsy tow head. "Will you stay with me, Bud, till I get up there?" I asked him. "Yeth thir! or down there. Let'th go round an' try the other thide." "Well, I guess we'll all stay with Phil, you cottontop," Tell Mapleson put in.
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