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But Thaddeus never told her, until it was a matter of ancient history, that when he arrived at home, a little after midnight, he found the place deserted, and was compelled to usher his friend in through the parlor window; that from top to bottom the mansion gave evidence of not having seen a broom or a dust-brush since the departure of the family; that Jane had not been seen in the neighborhood for one full week this came from those living on adjoining property; that Ellen had been absent since early that morning, and was not expected to return for three days; and, crowning act of infamy, that he, Thaddeus, and his friend were compelled to breakfast next morning upon a half of a custard pie, a bit mouldy, found by the lord of the manor on the fast- melting remains of a cake of ice in the refrigerator.
All was over, and La Rapet calmly put everything back into its place; the broom into the corner by the cupboard the sheet inside it, the saucepan on the hearth, the pail on the floor, and the chair against the wall.
"We could make a tent with a sheet off the bed like we do lots of times. Put it over a chair, you know." "But I haven't a gun," Teddy went on. He knew that he and Janet could make a tent, for they had often done it before. "Couldn't you take a broom for a gun?" Janet asked. "I'll get it from the kitchen." "Pooh! What good is a broom for a gun? I want one that shoots!
To-day as Nance stood in the doorway of this stronghold of dirt and disorder, she paused, broom in hand. The floor, as usual, was littered with papers and strings, the beds were unmade, the wash-stand and dresser were piled high with a miscellaneous collection, and the drawers of each stood open, disgorging their contents.
Sheriff Latin term for 'shrub, we called broom, worn by the first earl of Enjue, as an emblem of humility when they went to the pilgrimage, and from this their hairs took their crest and surname. Sheriff is a kind of titlous sect of people, as Barons, Nobles, etc. Sheriff; a tittle given on those persons who were respective and pious in England."
By stopping to search every bush and boulder she had got somewhat out of her way, but, as she was stooping to look under a large clump of broom and gorse not so very far from where her little sister lay asleep, something white fluttering about had caught her eye. It was Poppy's pinafore, dried now by the breeze.
The moment was coming when after having wielded the broom and managed the pot au feu, I was ready to drop with fatigue for besides my work as tutor, besides my literary labor, besides the continual attention necessitated by the condition of my invalid, I had rheumatism in every limb. The return of spring was hailed as offering a tardy release from their island.
About Acireale, on the east coast of the island, the bonfires are lit by boys, who jump over them. At Chiaromonte the witches that night acquire extraordinary powers; hence everybody then puts a broom outside of his house, because a broom is an excellent protective against witchcraft. At Orvieto the midsummer fires were specially excepted from the prohibition directed against bonfires in general.
"I never saw a child with such influence over animals," said her mother, as Lloyd came around the house with the parrot perched on the broom she was carrying. "She'll walk right up to any strange dog and make friends with it, no matter how savage-looking it is. And there's Polly, so old and cross that she screams and scolds dreadfully if any of us go near her.
"Why, of course I'll come," chirped Billy. "Where shall I meet you?" Bertram gave the street and number. "Good! I'll be there," promised Billy, as she hung up the receiver. Quite forgetting the broom in the middle of the drawing-room floor, Billy tripped up-stairs to change her dress. On her lips was a gay little song. In her heart was joy.
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