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Yes, I know you're in pain. Still, Caudle, my love; Caudle! Dearest, I say! Caudle!" "I recollect nothing more," says Caudle, "for I had eaten a hearty supper, and somehow became oblivious." "Ho, Mr. Caudle: I hope you enjoyed yourself at Greenwich. "I know it very well, sir: know all about it: know more than you think I know. I thought there was something in the wind.
"Then," said Varney, going on without appearing to notice the interruption, "he must have his lawyers deep, subtle pioneers to draw his contracts, his pre-contracts, and his post-contracts, and to find the way to make the most of grants of church-lands, and commons, and licenses for monopoly. And he must have physicians who can spice a cup or a caudle.
'Ha, God! he spluttered, cracking his fingers, 'so my Richard is the badger, ha? So then I have him, ha? If I do not draw him myself, by the Face! 'War is war, said the foaming old man, 'whether with a son or a grandmother you make it. Shall my enemy range the field and I sit at home and lap caudle?
The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, 'This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on. After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals: 'This I give to thee, O fox! spare thou my lambs; this to thee, O hooded crow! this to thee, O eagle! When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle; and after the feast is finished, what is left is hid by two persons deputed for that purpose; but on the next Sunday they reassemble, and finish the reliques of the first entertainment."
Caudle, you may call me what you please; you'll not make me cry now. No, no; I don't throw away my tears upon any such person now. "What? "Ha! that's your ingratitude! But none of you men deserve that any woman should love you. My poor heart! "Everybody else can go out of town except us. Ha! If I'd only married Simmons What? "Yes, that's all the thanks I get.
It shall know it, though that I'm determined. "How any man can leave his own happy fireside to go and sit, and smoke, and drink, and talk with people who wouldn't one of 'em lift a finger to save him from hanging how any man can leave his wife and a good wife, too, though I say it for a parcel of pot-companions oh, it's disgraceful, Mr. Caudle; it's unfeeling.
And yet they're only boring through his nose!" Hence, for all future time, the porker behaves himself with a sort of forced propriety for in either nostril he carries a ring. It is, for the greatness of humanity, a saddening thought, that sometimes men must be treated no better than pigs. But Mr. Job Caudle was not of these men. Marriage to him was not made a necessity.
Her hair, perfectly white, was still plentiful; her eye had still something of brightness, and there was upon the aged features the cast of thought and the habitual look of intelligence. Beside her upon a small table were such accompaniments of age as daughter and nurse deemed suitable the large print Bible, the big spectacles and caudle cup.
So I jumped out of bed, and went and slept somehow with the children." "Caudle, love, do you know what next Sunday is? "Well, was there ever such a strange man! Can't you guess, darling? Next Sunday, dear? Think, love, a minute just think. "Ha! if I hadn't a better memory than you, I don't know how we should ever get on. Well, then, pet, shall I tell you what next Sunday is?
Caudle, however, who grumbles, making no allowance for extra pressure of work on washing days, when she is too busy to hash the cold mutton.
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