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And Karna, who was moving to and fro while the menfolk ate, had a round, comfortable figure, and was carrying a big bread-knife in her hand. She inspired confidence, and she too looked a regular farmer's wife. A place was found for Pelle on the bed. He extinguished the tallow dip before he undressed, and thrust his underclothing under the pillow.
But as soon as he was on his feet he tried to stab my husband with a bread-knife. Fancy! Mr. Stott took this away from him, also, and ran him down the road with it. He ran him for seven miles seven miles, mind you! The cook was nearly dead when Mr. Stott let up on him. I had to drag this story from my husband, little by little. But wasn't it exciting?" Mr. Cone, who never had thought of Mr.
Sörine, with the bread-knife, stuffed old rags into the cracks in the wall; but one day when doing this, a big piece of the wall collapsed. She filled up the hole with the eiderdown, and when Lars Peter came home at night, he patched it up and nailed planks across to keep it in place.
The first thing the Master asked when he came home was, "Have you been down in the third cellar?" "How can you think it?" asked the lad. "Two drubbings are enough for any one." "What is the matter with your finger?" asked the Master. "Oh, I cut it with the bread-knife." The Master snatched the rag off, and there the lad's finger shone as though it were all of solid gold.
"Oh yes; we'll wait till after tea," said Ida, "and then we shall have plenty of time for a grand opening ceremony." With some reluctance Guy and Elsie agreed to this new arrangement. To them an extra ten hours or so seemed a very long time. The boy sat silent for a while, making a kind of switchback with his napkin-ring and the bread-knife.
She seemed half to kneel on the stone floor, and in one hand she held what at first appeared to be a dagger, but which proved to be nothing more romantic than a rather long bread-knife. 'I heard you, I heard you, she exclaimed. 'Get back; you mustn't come here. There was a desperate and dangerous look on her face, and her form shook with scarcely controlled passionate energy.
"Shure it's mad they are," he remonstrated to one of the servants, "to have sich foine things put in a bedroom where nobody'll see thim." The men came up from the coastguard station to scrape the walls, and Ellis, the petty officer, used the bread-knife, and broke it, and papa bawled at him. Beth was sorry for Ellis. The house was built of stone, and very damp.
At length, as the second week of anxious waiting was drawing to a close, Peace could endure the suspense no longer, and one warm afternoon, while her sisters were occupied with their various duties, she snatched the sharp bread-knife from the pantry shelf, and with Allee in tow, stole down to her garden plot.
'Oh, just take a very large bread-knife, sharpen it, and pretend that you are going to cut straight through the third of the four loaves which are lying on the kitchen table in the King's palace count them from right to left and you will soon find her, said Dapplegrim.
When Adoree finally came forth in one of Lorelei's aprons really a fetching garment, more like a house dress than an apron Bob told her whom they were expecting as the other guest. She paused with a bread-knife upraised. "That VIPER?" she cried. "Campbell isn't a viper; he's a cricket a dramatic cricket," declared Bob. Adoree began to undo the buttons at her back, but Bob seized her hands.
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