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Cloam will take care of you, and find all that is needful for a warrior's cleanup. I must look at the barometer, and consider my despatches. Let us have dinner, Mrs. Cloam, in twenty minutes, if possible. For we stand in real need of it." Concerning that there could be no doubt. Glory, as all English officers know, is no durable stay for the stomach.
And only yesterday, as a man with a gardening mind looks at it, you was the prettiest young maiden on the green, and the same barring marriage if you was to encounter with the young men now." "Oh," said Mrs. Cloam, who was fifty, if a day, "how you do make me think of sad troubles, Mr. Swipes!
"If 'a can only get Miss Faith, his bread 'll be buttered to both sides for life his self to one side, and her to do the tother. The same as I told Mother Cloam a man that knoweth his duty to head gardeners, as his noble lordship doth, the same know the differ atwixt Miss Faith as fine a young 'ooman as ever looked into a pink and that blow-away froth of a thing, Miss Dolly."
Cloam; and the purtier a flower is, the more delicate it grows. I've a-been a-thinking of you every night, ma'am, knowing how you must 'a been put about and driven. The Admiral have gone down to the village, and Miss Dolly to stare at the boats going out." "Then I may speak a word for once at ease, Mr. Swipes, though the Lord alone knows what a load is on my tongue.
"I couldn't leave un," declared Will's wife. "'T is my duty to keep along wi'un for better or worse." "Us'll talk 'bout all that later. I be gwaine to act prompt an' sell every stick, an' then away, a free man." "All our furniture an' property!" moaned Phoebe, looking round her in dismay. "All to the leastest bit o' cracked cloam." "A forced sale brings nought," sighed Damaris.
Miss Faith is the lass for a good quiet man, without no airs and graces, and to my judgment every bit as comely, and more of her to hold on by. But the Lord 'a mercy upon us. Mrs. Cloam, you've a-been married like my poor self; and you knows what we be, and we knows what you be. Looks 'ain't much to do with it after the first week or two.
Swipes, having emptied his pot. "Men's heads was made for it, but not women's, till they come to superior stations in life. But, oh, Mrs. Cloam, what a life we lead with the crotchets of they gentry!" "It isn't that so much, Mr. Swipes, if only there was any way of giving satisfaction. I wish everybody who is born to it to have the very best of everything, likewise all who have fought up to it.
Jenny, take the yellow jug with the three beef-eaters on it, and go to the third cask from the door the key turns upside down, mind and let me hear you whistle till you bring me back the key. Don't tell me nonsense about your lips being dry. You can whistle like a blackbird when you choose." "Here's to your excellent health, Mrs. Cloam, and as blooming as it finds you now, ma'am!
Cloam seems to have no authority whatever. And you too, Dolly, had no business there. If any one went to see the room comfortable, it should have been Faith, as the lady of the house. Ever since you persuaded me that you were too old for a governess, you seem to be under no discipline at all." "Now you know that you don't mean that, papa.
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