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One that wou'd be cuckolded by every feather'd Fool; that you'd call a Beau un Gallant Homme. 'Sdeath! Enter Scaramouch running. Sea. Oh Madam! hide your Lover, or we are all undone. Char. Doct. Bellemante, Niece, Bellemante. Scar. She's coming, Sir. Where, where shall I hide him? Enter Doctor. Doct. Oh Niece!
"Yes," said Mr. George; "I heard of a party of English ladies who once went out in a char
The view which was first presented to their observation was that of the lawns and gardens in the midst of which the hotels were situated. These grounds were connected together by walks some straight, others winding which passed through bowers and gateways from one enclosure to the other. In these walks various parties were strolling; some were gathering flowers, others were gazing at the mountains around, and others still were moving quietly along, going from one hotel to another for the purpose of taking a pleasant morning walk or to make visits to their friends. The whole scene was a bright and very animated one; but Rollo had not time to observe it long; for the char
The big trees soon began to char, and, within an hour, were glowing pillars of fire, as one after another broke into flames that mounted higher and higher. Had there been leisure to view it as a spectacle, the sight would have been a magnificent one, but the Overlanders had other things to occupy their attention.
"Anna, by Jupiter," he cried, as he stepped from the pavement at the very corner of Dover Street "well, if my luck don't beat cock-fighting. Where are you off to, Anna what have you done with the shoving-machine? I thought you never aired the gee-gees now. Something new for you, isn't it? May I get in and have a pawt? We shall be fined forty bob and costs at Marlborough Street if we hold up the traffic. Say, you look ripping in this char
Imagine to yourself a small, withered, yellow-faced man of sixty-three, with thin hands, large brown eyes, a head of grizzled hair cut short and standing up like a half-worn scrubbing-brush total weight in my clothes, nine stone six and you will get a very fair idea of Allan Quatermain, commonly called Hunter Quatermain, or by the natives 'Macumazahn' Anglic/CHAR: e grave/, he who keeps a bright look-out at night, or, in vulgar English, a sharp fellow who is not to be taken in.
If the operation is carried out successfully, the cork-like substance will grow again and become as abundant as ever. "The next thing to be done to the pieces of bark is partially to burn, or char, them, and also to make them quite flat, as they come from the trunk in a rounded shape.
'I didn't forget that, Ollyett interrupted. 'That was uppermost in my mind all the time. I've got a special account for The Bun to-day it's an idyll and just to show how I thought of you, I told 'Dal, coming home, about your Gubby Dance, and she told Winnie. Winnie came back in our char-
"If you had only kept the presents you have brought me from New Orleans, you might sell out your steamboat and be a rich man." "He is a rich man," said the Colonel, promptly. "Did you ever miss bringing her a present, Lige?" he asked. "When the Cora Anderson burnt," answered the Captain. "Why," cried Virginia, "you brought me a piece of her wheel, with the char on it. You swam ashore with it."
'Carn't abide them things, commented Elizabeth; 'they bust sometimes and blows folks up. 'We have no outside help, I continued. 'An' a good thing, too. One place I was in the char 'elped 'erself to things an' it was me who was blamed fer it. 'We have no gas-cooker. 'Well, that's all right, then. Don't understand 'em. Give me a proper kitchen range, that's all I ask. I looked up hopefully.
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