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Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night's performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
The lie was so probable, he was believed easily, and was well beaten accordingly. Down in the ragged linings of his coat Tiki-pu could hear the candle-ends rattling as the buffeting and chastisement fell upon him, and often he trembled lest his hoard should be discovered.
"That I will not," said I; adding that I would blithely share the breakfast with him. Whereat he laughed and clipt my hand, and swore I was a true soldier and a brave gentleman to boot. So we sat and hobnobbed at the table; and Tybee lighted all the remnant candle-ends, and broached the wine and pledged me in a bumper before we fell to upon the cold haunch of venison.
With a handsome salary, besides pickings, "cheese parings and candle-ends," &c. he has an elegant garden of two acres, fitted up with hot-houses, &c. equal to any nobleman's, the finest wall fruit, &c. &c.; the fruit from which walls and hot-houses finds its way upon the table of the Visiting Justices. By these and other means, Mr.
Nettlepoint observed that with the people they had in the house, an establishment reduced naturally at such a moment to its simplest expression they were burning up candle-ends and there were no luxuries she wouldn't answer for the service.
Miss Constance, I thought I'd trick him: so I took care to put just about an inch of candle in his bed candlestick, and no more: but, law bless me! when folks is bent on forbidden things, it is not candle-ends that will stop 'em!" "I suppose you mean that the light burnt still, in spite of your inch of candle?" said Constance. "It just did," returned Judith.
There are many who think that economy consists in saving cheese-parings and candle-ends, in cutting off twopence from the laundress' bill and doing all sorts of little mean, dirty things. Economy is not meanness. The misfortune is, also, that this class of persons let their economy apply in only one direction.
"No; you are too young to look jaded in the morning. Your eyes are as clear as a child's; and how blue they are." "Mild and babyish-like, are they not? almost green with innocence. But Charles has devilish eyes, don't you think so?" She turned with her mouth open in astonishment, and her hand full of candle-ends. "Cassandra Morgeson, are you mad?" "Good-by," Alice. I only saw Mr.
They are naked, with scrolls or ribbons wreathed around them, adding to the airiness of their continual dance. Some of the loveliest are in a room used to stow away the lumber of the church old boards and curtains, broken lanterns, candle-ends in tin sconces, the musty apparatus of festival adornments, and in the midst of all a battered, weather-beaten bier.
The old woman smiled discreetly and showed her into a large parlour, the door of which she closed upon her. It was a bare wainscoted room, gloomy, lighted by two candle-ends. A prie-Dieu, a table, some straw chairs, a few rows of old books on shelves painted black, composed all the furniture.
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