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He ran towards the spot and called his companions, but the arm had disappeared; they searched, but nothing was to be seen, and though the soldier persisted in his story he was not believed. "Come," said one of the party, "don't waste your time here looking for an apparition among these cabbage-stalks, come back once more to the house."
"Vy, now, Mr Simple," said the woman, "ar'n't you a nice lady's man, to go for to ax me to muddle my way through all the dead dogs, cabbage-stalks, and stinking hakes' heads, with my bran new shoes and clean stockings?" I looked at her, and sure enough she was, as they say in France, bien chaussee. "Come, Mr Simple, let him out to come for his clothes, and you'll see that he's back in a moment."
Jones on his way home" "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" "kiss" "Miss Blake, she's the girl with a foot and ankle" "Daly has never had wool on his sheep" "how could he" "what does he pay for the mountain" "four and tenpence a yard" "not a penny less" "all the cabbage-stalks and potato-skins" "with some bog stuff through it" "that's the thing to" "make soup, with a red herring in it instead of salt" "and when he proposed for my niece, ma'am, says he" "mix a strong tumbler, and I'll make a shake-down for you on the floor" "and may the Lord have mercy on your soul" "and now, down the middle and up again" "Captain Magan, my dear, he is the man" "to shave a pig properly" "it's not money I'm looking for, says he, the girl of my heart" "if she had not a wind-gall and two spavins" "I'd have given her the rights of the church, of coorse," said Father Roach, bringing up the rear of this ill-assorted jargon.
Of course it made one cry horribly; but then of course one cries when one hears of people reduced by sheer craving to eat nettles and cabbage-stalks. Destitution, absolute hunger, cold and nakedness, are no more subjects for artistic representation than sickness, disease, and the real details of idiotcy, madness, and death.
At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails.
His simple meal of bacon and eggs having been dispatched, and gratitude failing to invest with interest the lean pigs that searched in vain for cabbage-stalks, or the dyspeptic fowls that were moulting digestive pebbles in the street without, Richard lit a cigar, and prepared to saunter forth. The fog had vanished; all the sky was blue and bright.
The more distant corner of the little living-room, that which embraced the hearth and the dower-chest, was already wrapped in gloom. Elsa bent over the worm-eaten piece of furniture: her hands plunged in the midst of maize-husks and dirty linen of cabbage-stalks and sunflower-seeds, till presently they encountered something soft and woolly. "Here is the bunda, mother," she said.
I try to get over it; but if you were to go away from me in anger, I should be so beaten for a week or two that I could do nothing." "Why won't you let me do anything?" "I will; whatever you please. But kiss me." Then he kissed her, as he stood among Mr. Soames's cabbage-stalks. "Dear Hugh; you are such a god to me!" "You don't treat me like a divinity."
She had not opened her lips while they were looking round at the bare walls and floors, and the little garden with the cabbage-stalks, and the yew arbor all dust and cobwebs within. "You and the four girls all in that closet of a room, with the green and yellow paper pressing on your eyes? And without me?" "It will be some comfort that you have not to bear it too, dear."
Tailors, chandlers, tinmen, wretched hucksters, and greengrocers, are now established in the mansions of the old peers; small children are yelling at the doors, with mouths besmeared with bread and treacle; damp rags are hanging out of every one of the windows, steaming in the sun; oyster- shells, cabbage-stalks, broken crockery, old papers, lie basking in the same cheerful light.
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