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"Oh, auntie," she cried, "I thought you said just now when we were spreading the cloth that nothing had been forgotten, and how good Sarah was to think of everything. Oh, auntie!" "Oh, auntie!" chorussed Bob, joining in the general laugh. "Fancy forgetting the bread!" "Aye, to leave out the staff of life, of all things!" put in the Captain, having his say.
Our follies always find us out, if not while we live, then when we die! I'm sorry! Farmer Jocelyn was not a Churchman no! a regrettable circumstance! still, I'm sorry! He was a useful person in the parish quite honest, I believe, and a very fair and good master " "None better!" chorussed his listeners. "True! None better. Well, well!
To this lamentation, which one or two of the assistants chorussed with a deep groan, our hero thought it unnecessary to make any reply. Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade.
That worthy, emboldened by his success and the smiles of Mallett, contained himself no longer: "Down with the manager!" he cried. His satellites chorussed. But now Vivian rushed forward. "Mr. Smith, I thank you for being so definite; take that!" and he struck Smith with such force that the Cleon staggered and fell; but Smith instantly recovered, and a ring was instantly formed.
"But I tell you we didn't do it, Sam," said Harry. "Ah! don't tell me; I knows you did. There's footmarks all along from the gap, right across the potato piece, and everybody else will begin to go the same way, and make a regular path of it." "But we didn't go that way," chorussed the boys. "Why, what an old stupid it is," said Philip; "he won't believe anything."
"So I think," said the gunner; "we'd best go back and get the lanterns, so as to have a good search, or else come back and do the job by daylight." "Ay, ay," was chorussed by three of the party. "Yes, it's all very well to say `Ay, ay, and talk about lanterns and daylight," growled Tom Tully; "but I don't like going off and leaving one's work half done.
"You come have bleakfast 'long o' Ching. Ching velly glad to see you; Ching pay." "What? nonsense!" cried Smith, while we others stared. "Yes; Ching plenty money. Captain gave Ching plenty plize-money; make him velly happy to see young offlicer to bleakfast." "Oh, but we can't let him pay for us, Smithy," cried Barkins. "No, of course not," we chorussed.
The songs of the vintagers, frequently chorussed from one part of the field to the other, ring blithely into the bright summer air, pealing out above the rough jokes and hearty peals of laughter shouted hither and thither.
To this lamentation, which one or two of the assistants chorussed with a deep groan, our hero thought it unnecessary to make any reply. Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade.
"Ay, where are they?" chorussed the mob, flourishing their various weapons, and flashing their torches in the air; "we'll starve 'em out." Mr. Wood trembled. He felt he had raised a storm which it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to allay.
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