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If I take you off a two inch from each leg of that there bedstead, and a two inch from each of them there postsis, it'll be the same as if the builder 'e raised you the ceilin' a four inch." "By Jove," said Jevons. "So it will." "Ay, and it'll corst you somethin' like four shillin', instead of p'raps a matter of forty pound. W'en it comes to tamperin' with ceilin's, you never know where you are."
He communicated with his companion, the useful earphones chancing to be in place trust Perk for that. "Somethin' doin' out there to the west, partner look up to a higher ceilin' an' you'll see it. Headin' to cross over our trail in the bargain, I guess." "A crate, all right," commented Jack, whose quick eyesight had immediately picked up the moving object.
Even if he could climb the perpendicular wall above his head, he could not thence gain the aperture, for, as his eyes became more accustomed to the darkness, he discovered that the shape of the roof was like the interior of a roughly defined dome, about the centre of which was this small opening. "An' a human can't walk on a ceilin' like a fly," he said discontentedly.
"Oh, yes," said Shelton, feeling on safe ground; "he's refined enough to look at." Mrs. Dennant took the rose and put it to her nose. "Delicious perfume! That was a very touchin' story about his goin' without food in Paris. Old Mrs. Hopkins has a room to let; I should like to do her a good turn. I'm afraid there's a hole in the ceilin', though.
"'Merely to show you the error of your ways, he remarks, 'an' to teach you to lead a 'happier an' a better life, I sees your five hundred an' raises her back the same. An' the avaricious gent counts off a thousand dollars. 'Thar, he says when it's up, 'now go as far as you like. Make it a ceilin' play if the sperit moves you. "'I sees it an' lifts her for five hundred more, retorts Cherokee.
For if it had been hard and tuckerin' to what it seemed the utmost limit of tucker, to stand up on a lofty barell, and lift up one arm, and scrape the ceilin', what would it be, so we wildly questioned our souls, and each other, to stand up on the same fearful hites, and lift both arms over our heads, and get on them fearful lengths of paper smooth.
He'd come in to barricks wid his cap on three hairs, an' lie on his cot and stare at the ceilin', and now an' again he'd fetch a little laugh, the like av a splash in the bottom av a well, an' by that I knew he was schamin' new wickedness, an' I'd be afraid. All this was long an' long ago, but ut hild me straight for a while.
The extreme hite of the ceilin'; the slipperyness and fragility of the lengths of paper; the fearful hite and tottlin'ness of the barells; the dizzeness that swept over us at times, in spite of our marble efforts to be calm. The dretful achin' and strainin' of our armpits, that bid fair to loosen 'em from their four sockets.
They had the place fixed up fancy, too, blue and green toy balloons floatin' around the ceilin', a peacock in a big gold cage, tables ranged around the dancin' space, and the trombone artist puttin' his whole soul into a pumpin' out "The Alcoholic Blues." And you could order most anything off the menu, from a poulet casserole to a cheese sandwich.
"Dodrabbit ye, Pharo!" cried a voice from the fondest of the Artichokes, seizing him with an exultant pride which he affected to hide under derogatory language; "was that you I seen in there jest now, stompin' the frescoes off'n the ceilin'?"
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