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"So live de vorkers," said the stranger, and he knocked on the door of one of the hovels. It was unbarred by a woman with several children about her skirts, and the men entered a cabin lighted by a feeble, smoky lamp. There was a huge oven at one side, with a kettle in which cabbage was cooking.
It consisted of beef, roasted and boiled pork, roasted and fried together with chicken, turkey, partridge, and venison well flanked on every side by bread, butter, and cheese, potatoes, cabbage, and various other vegetables.
I took at any rate Fustov's exact address, and sauntered home, meditating deeply. This unexpected absence from Moscow, in the winter, completed my utter perplexity. My good aunt observed to me at dinner that I seemed continually expecting something, and gazed at the cabbage pie as though I were beholding it for the first time in my life.
Redding on the shoulder: "Will you please, ma'am, tell me when we get there?" Mrs. Redding laughed. "Get there, dear? Why, we have just started!" "I mean to the Cabbage Patch. They're all going to be watching for me as we go through." "Is that it?" said Mr. Redding. "Well, I will take the boys, and you can go out and stand on the platform and watch for your friends." Lovey Mary hesitated.
And it wasn't so terrible when we got a good dinner out of it. I wish I could find a cabbage every day." "You had better put something on that scratch," cautioned Dr. Pigg. Then he went on reading his paper, and Mrs. Pigg got out the salve bottle for Buddy. Well, it was two days after this that Brighteyes Pigg was out walking along the road.
Nathan Bamberger, what can buy and sell you three times over, ain't ashamed to go in her Lindell Avenue kitchen, when her husband or her son likes red cabbage, what you can't hire cooked, or once in a while a miltz." "Say, if I've heard that once, I've "
Eh, I'd like to get my fingers round the neck of a dirty Boche!" "I finished him with a grenade," said the poilu. "It was good enough. It knocked a hole in him as large as a cemetery. See then, my cabbage. It will make you smile. It is a funny kind of mascot, eh?" He put on the table a small leather pouch stained with a blotch of reddish brown.
As I told you just now, I have always said that I would not marry with less than eighteen thousand francs of dowry. What is the use of repeating? Words are not roasted chestnuts." "Nor eighteen thousand francs either," answered the other. "Magari! I wish they were. You should have them in a moment. But a franc is a franc." "I did not say it was a cabbage," observed Carnesecchi.
Chestnuts fattened him and the grapes made him sweet. Speaking with respect, he was a pig for a pope." "He will do for a Scotch doctor then," answered Dalrymple. "Tell me, what does this beautiful nun do all day long?" "What does she do? What can a nun do? She eats cabbage and prays like the others. But she has charge of all the convent linen, so I see her when I go with my mother.
The Lowries," she managed to inject a surprising amount of contempt into her pronouncement of that name. "What it was all about you nor any sensible person would never believe: "The house smelled a little of boiled cabbage. That's why he left me, and you expected in a matter of a few months. He said in his dam' frigid way that it had become quite impossible and took down his hat."
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