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The very men whom he met after his arrival in the streets of Southampton, all looked as if they had been born with hat-brushes and clothes-brushes in their hands. As a race, moreover, they had special defects. They lacked delicacy and taste in conferring obligations or paying compliments. They were utterly indifferent to the feelings of others.
'To go! exclaimed all three, who had thought the question settled by Arthur's refusal. 'Yes, of course; I go with Georgina. 'With Mark Gardner, and the king of the clothes-brushes, and all their train, in moustaches and parti-coloured parasols! cried Percy. 'Theodora, I thought you were a sensible woman. 'I am sorry if I forfeit that claim to your regard. 'Well, if I was your mother!
That time I went through the asylum at Butte there was a young man kept going on with the same outlandish rigmarole just like Percival. The idea of Percival telling me to eat a lemon-ice with an ice-pick, and 'Oh, why don't the flesh-brushes wear nice, proper clothes-brushes! and be sure and hammer my nails good and hard after I get them manicured.
The second bass has a great, big Adam's apple that slides up and down his throat like a toy-monkey on a stick. He is tall, and has eyebrows like clothes-brushes, and he scowls fit to make you run and hide under the bed. He is really a good-hearted fellow, though. Pity he has the dyspepsia so bad. Oh, my, yes! Suffers everything with it, poor man. He generally sings that song about "Drink-ing!
It was the odor of hogs going up to the Ohio heavens of hogs in a state of transit from hoggish nature to clothes-brushes, saddles, sausages, and lard. He spoke with an authority that constrained belief; but I can never forgive him in that he took me over those hills, knowing all that he professed to know.
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