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Updated: May 27, 2025
At nightfall, the rain-clouds spread from the hills of Westmorland, and there were some hours of downpour. This did not look hopeful for the morrow, but, on the other hand, it promised a finer sight at the falls, if by chance the weather grew tolerable. The sun rose amid dropping vapours, and at breakfast-time had not yet conquered the day, but a steady brightening soon put an end to doubt.
Ah, Teddy, my boy, what a nice, respectable family man you are, to be sure!" With which acknowledgment Mr Ratman, in capital spirits, returned to his room. On the way he encountered Tom, who, being of a forgiving disposition, owed him no grudge for the trouble that had occurred at breakfast-time. "Hullo, Mr Ratty!" said the boy; "going out? Aren't you looking forward to the party to-night? I am.
Before marriage he had behaved once or twice in this sort of way at picnics; and after marriage, when at breakfast-time he had sat at the other end of the table reading the paper or his letters, she had reminded him of it reproachfully. The entire day he never left her side. She could never read a book; instead, he would read to her aloud, generally Browning' poems or translations from Goethe.
Leave it till breakfast-time, though. Go back to bed and rest; you need it." The day, begun so early, seemed interminable, yet there were so many things to see to that it was afternoon before she found an opportunity of carrying out her secret intention.
Among his letters at breakfast-time came one which he had no sooner read than he flung on the table and went into a fury. Lucy sat aghast; then inquired in tender anxiety what was the matter. Angry explanations are apt to be dark ones. "It is a confounded shame it is a trick, child it is a do." "Ah! what is that, uncle? 'a do'? 'a do'?"
Not even the Welsh Giant, who, according to the popular expression, was so 'slow' as to perform a fatal surgical operation upon himself, in emulation of a juggling-trick achieved by his arch- enemy at breakfast-time; not even he fell half so readily into the snare prepared for him, as the old lady did into this artful pitfall.
We can only imagine or surmise such things or such conditions and such forces as overcame them." At breakfast-time next morning Sir Nathaniel and Mr. Salton were seated when Adam came hurriedly into the room. "Any news?" asked his uncle mechanically. "Four." "Four what?" asked Sir Nathaniel. "Snakes," said Adam, helping himself to a grilled kidney. "Four snakes. I don't understand."
"Why," he cried, "it's breakfast-time! I must have been asleep after all." Then he stood looking back into yesterday, for the evening's proceedings came to him with a flash. "A Jacobite!" he said aloud; "and those heads upon the top of the gate!" It was a bright morning; but now it seemed to Frank Gowan that the world had suddenly turned back.
"Indeed! why was he cross?" "It was about a month ago. He laughed, but I know he was cross. St. George and I went over at his breakfast-time to get the key of this house, which had been left with him; and, while I ran up-stairs to see the children, he told St. Barbara threw some snowballs at you, but you caught her and kissed her."
But sometimes we dream something has happened, and the dream is so like reality, that you are not the first person, little woman, who has stood out that the thing has really happened. 'But, indeed, it was not a dream! said Ailsie, beginning to cry. Just then Mr and Mrs Chadwick came down, looking grave and discomposed. All during breakfast-time they were silent and uncomfortable.
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