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Warrington's old book-case and battered library, Pen's writing-table with its litter of papers presented an aspect cheerless enough. "Will you like to look in the bedrooms, Mr. Bows, and see if my victims are there?" he said bitterly; "or whether I have made away with the little girls, and hid them in the coal-hole?" "Your word is sufficient, Mr. Pendennis," the other said, in his sad tone.
Warrington's old bookcase and battered library, Pen's writing-table with its litter of papers, presented an aspect cheerless enough. "Will you like to look in the bedrooms, Mr. Bows, and see if my victims are there?" he said bitterly; "or whether I have made away with the little girls, and hid them in the coal-hole?" "Your word is sufficient, Mr. Pendennis," the other said in his sad tone.
I have also insisted on a covered veranda and sleeping porch on the south side of the shack, and fly-screens, and repairs to the chimney to stop the range from smoking. And since the cellar, which is merely timbered, will have to be both my coal-hole and my storage-room, it most assuredly will have to be cemented.
'Yes, gentlemen, replied the magistrate 'heroes that you are riflemen from a window upon my honor and conscience, I think courage is like the philosopher's stone here have I, while you were popping like schoolboys out of the window, pursued their leader single-handed into the coal-hole, for I'm sure he's in it, or if not, he must have escaped some other way d n the villain, I hope he hasn't escaped, at all events here, lights, I say, and guard all the passes d n it, let us do our business with proper discipline and skill fall back, Fergus and you, John, advance steady now charge the coal-hole, boys, and I'll lead you on to the danger. Of course he was half drunk, but at the same time he managed to conceal his cowardice with considerable adroitness.
"Its paws are white really, but I think it's been in the coal-hole." This seemed very likely, for not only its paws but the smart ribbon Ruth had tied round its neck was grimy and black. "It's not exactually pretty," she continued, "but it's a very nice cat. You can't think how well it knows me generally." Mr Lorimer studied the long lean form of the cat curiously through his eye-glass.
It was not until he had carried her home, and had begun to think of the necessary washing, that he recollected the need that he should punish Eppie, and "make her remember". The idea that she might run away again and come to harm, gave him unusual resolution, and for the first time he determined to try the coal-hole a small closet near the hearth.
Ward has intimated his willingness to contribute a large number of Latin lines written by members of his class; while Mr. Sam Jones, the boot-cleaner, has offered to place his talented brush at our disposal, and produce a grand New-Year's Illustrated Supplement, entitled, 'Christmas in the Coal-Hole. Gentlemen, I fear I am trespassing on your time and good nature. Mr.
The child, however, getting better, and the mother hearing what the children said, begged my pardon for having accused me wrongfully, and then told me the whole particulars of his first fright and the woman and the coal-hole. I had the greatest difficulty imaginable to persuade him, that a sweep was a human being, and that he loved little children as much as other persons.
Resistance was to be kept strictly within the constitutional limits, indeed the very year of his junction with this the extreme left of the Repeal party, Smith O'Brien's most violent proceeding was to decline to sit upon a railway committee to which he had been summoned, an act of contumacy for which he was ordered by the House of Commons into the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and committed to an extemporized prison, by some cruelly declared to be the coal-hole.
The lid that covered the upper half of Parkins's intelligence also received a jolt; it was a coal-hole lid that covered emptiness, but now and then admitted the light. "Might 'ave known from the clothes 'e wore 'e was no common PUR-son," he said to himself. As to Jack, not only his mind but his heart were in a whirl.
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