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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Well, all through?" inquired the burnisher in his thin voice. Vandover nodded. But his wife was not satisfied until she had herself carefully peered into the cubby, while her husband held a lighted match for her. "Ah, that's something like," she said finally. It was nearly seven. Vandover prepared to go home a second time.
As he ended, he dropped the two brushes, the blacking, and the burnisher inside the legs of the boots, picked them up with a sweep of the arm, and, turning short round, strode out into the little garden.
This evening she thought she had seen him enter a dancing-hall opposite, and, five or six paces behind, little Adèle, a burnisher. Towards five o'clock Gervaise awoke, stiff and sore. Seated on the edge of the bed, her eyes veiled in tears, she glanced round the wretched room, furnished with a chest of drawers, three chairs and a little greasy table on which stood a broken water-jug.
Prone in the filth under the sink, in the sour water, the grease, the refuse, he groped about with his hand searching for the something gray that the burnisher's wife had seen. He found it and drew it out. It was an old hambone covered with a greenish fuzz. "Oh, did you ever!" cried the burnisher, holding up his hands. "Here, don't drop that on my clean floor; put it in your pail.
When erasures have been thus made the surface of the paper may be resized and polished, by applying white glue, and rubbing it over with a burnisher. When thus treated it may be again written over without difficulty.
"She never does any laundry, not even a pair of cuffs. A seamstress who doesn't even sew on a loose button! She's just like her sister, the brass burnisher, that hussy Adele, who stays away from her job two days out of three. Nobody knows who their folks are or how they make a living. Though, if I wanted to talk . . . What on earth is she scrubbing there? A filthy petticoat.
God has graciously given us this boon, as a burnisher of our existence: "Nature, in zeal for human amity, Denies or damps an undivided joy. * Joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists; Delight intense is taken by rebound." The friendships of woman, from her being gifted with strong affections, exert a peculiar influence on her character and destiny.
"The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the Giant, and except for a craftsman who brings his craft, the gate will not be opened to-night." "Verily, porter," then said Kai, "my craft bring I with me." "What is thy craft?" "The best burnisher of swords am I in the world."
The bird repeated its lamentable cry, "My strength!" and the youth proceeded with increased vehemence: "It would really be better that you should throw your vice and your graver and your burnisher, and all that heap of dainty tools, into the sea, and carve an Atlas such as we have heard you talk about ever since we could first speak Greek. Come, set to work on a colossus!
CAPT. G. To be stared at? CAPT. M. Exactly. You're part of the show. Where's the burnisher? Your spurs are in a shameful state. If I choose to clean your spurs, you're under my orders. CAPT. G. dresses. M. follows suit. Only don't look so like a criminal. Ring, gloves, fees that's all right for me. Let your moustache alone. Now, if the ponies are ready, we'll go. Let's light up! Let's have a peg!
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