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Nobody will take any notice of me." He quite crossly rebuked her. She really must spend more on her dress. It was unseemly absurd. She looked as nice as anybody when she was properly got up. "Well, don't buy any more copper coal-scuttles!" she said slyly, as she straightened his tie, and dropped a kiss on his chin. "Then we'll see."
The parlor clock stood on a barrel; some coal-scuttles had been placed on the parlor table, a bust of Washington stood in the door-way, and the looking-glasses leaned against the pillars of the piazza. But they were moved! Mrs. Peterkin felt, indeed, that they were very much moved. CERTAINLY now was the time to study the languages.
Comes of starting with a set of fixed notions." "Well," answered Hewitt, "I fancy you must have been rather 'out of form, as they say; everybody has his stupid days, and you can't keep up to concert pitch forever. To return to the case. The evidence of the chopper was very untrustworthy, especially when I had heard of Goujon's careless habits losing shovels and leaving coal-scuttles on stairs.
And the captain's presence, which had always comforted her, was now a perpetual blessing. Always pleasant, kind, and courteous, as of old, but oh, so different! All the coal-scuttles and water-pails in the house might occupy the stairway at night, but the captain could safely thread his way among them.
"Exactly," she said; "but I submitted humbly. I came here, as I supposed, a fairly good Christian, with an average amount of piety and an average number of faults. My worldliness shocked my uncle, and being a peaceful person, I let him pick me. But I rebelled at the bonnet spare me from one of those coal-scuttles I'll go to the stake first."
World-states and aristocracies of steel and fire, things that were as real as coal-scuttles in Billy's rooms away there at Cambridge, were now remoter than Sirius. He was expected to shave, expected to bath, expected to go in to the bright warmth and white linen and silver and china of his breakfast-table. And there he found letters and invitations, loaded with expectation.
"Please call things by their right names." "But it makes no difference with the proof, what you call things in geometry," argued Joyce, "whether it's angles or angels or caterpillars or coal-scuttles, it's all the same in the end!"
"Well," said Hewitt, "perhaps not; but we'll see. Meantime" turning to the landlord's clerk "possibly you will be good enough to tell me one or two things. First, what was Goujon's character?" "Excellent, as far as we know. We never had a complaint about him except for little matters of carelessness leaving coal-scuttles on the staircases for people to fall over, losing shovels, and so on.
I have heard how in the Fraser River the fish positively pack and jostle as they move up. So here; but the unhappy sportsman has nothing to catch them with. Brass coal-scuttles and duplex lamps are about all that remains in the way of bait, and these are the only things they won't rise to. He rushes off to Kitchener. "Give me a train a day. Give me a train a week." "You be d d," growls Kitchener.
'I suppose so, the other sulkily replied, as he crawled out of the umbrella: 'only SHE must help us to dress up, you know. So the two brothers went off hand-in-hand into the wood, and returned in a minute with their arms full of things such as bolsters, blankets, hearth-rugs, table-cloths, dish-covers and coal-scuttles.
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