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"And they looked transfigured, and I fairly itched to sing the Marseillaise, though I knew I couldn't. Then she chinked glasses with us. "'Bonne chance, mes amis! "And then she made a sign to the auld wife, who added the few remaining drops to our glasses. 'To Doggie! said mademoiselle. We drank the toast, laddie.
He flashed the lantern along the carefully chinked walls, the rose tints of the cedar glowing warmly back at him. He walked slowly up and down the center aisle and paused before the platform, on which was a table and chair. For a long time he stood with one hand on the table. Then he said: "It's beautiful, Douglas! Beautiful! A chapel for me! Built by a young man that has faith in me. Wonderful!
"Wait an' see." Well, the Toyman had to go to town "tomorrow," which was much sooner than he had expected earlier in the week. And when he came back his pockets chinked right merrily. They were as full of marbles as on his first trip back from town. They were very beautiful, too, but somehow Marmaduke loved the first blue croaker and the bright agate and the little gray mig best of all.
The barn itself was made of logs, the interstices closely chinked and daubed with clay, so as to make it almost air-tight. Around the building on the inside ran a large stone flue, like a chimney laid on the ground. Outside was a huge pile of wood and a liberal supply of charcoal.
Tight office-doors flew open, panels yielded, books, newspapers, travelling-caps and wrappers broke out of brick walls, money chinked, conveyances oppressed by nightmares of luggage came careering into the yard, porters started up from secret places, ditto the much-injured women, the shining bell, who lived in a little tray on stilts by himself, flew into a man's hand and clamoured violently.
Nevertheless, by four o'clock the work was completed, and the last helper had departed homeward. The cabin was, of course, not yet fit for occupancy; the walls were not chinked, nor the hearthstone laid.
"Yes, that's right." I heard her hands groping about the chair and turned to try the floor on the other side again. "I have it, monsieur." "Well," said I, "I could have sworn I'd felt everywhere round that chair." She chinked the bag by way of answer. "Anyway, we've got it," said I. "Come on." And I made for the door. Then I stopped to take one more look at the great house.
I looked and seeing a string of green silk hanging from the pocket knew it for a purse; and the crush grew greater every minute and just then, a camel laden with a load of fuel happened to jostle the trooper on the opposite side, and he turned round to fend it off from him, lest it tear his clothes; and Satan tempted me, so I pulled the string and drew out a little bag of blue silk, containing something which chinked like coin.
As it is they merely notch the logs at the corners, leaving wide spaces to be filled up with splits, rocks, mud anything to keep out the weather. As a matter of fact, few houses ever are thoroughly chinked and he who would take pains to make a workmanlike job of chinking would be ridiculed as "fussin' around like an old granny-woman." Nobody but a tenderfoot feels drafts, you know.
At this I gasped and sinking down in a shady spot, fanned myself feebly with my hat. "My poor child," said I mournfully, "my poor " "I'm not your child!" she retorted. "And as for poor what o' this?" and she shook the bag at her girdle until the coins within it chinked. "This is most distressing!" said I, shaking my head. "What is?" "A noun is not a tree " "You says it was "
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