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He was drinking beer like a coalheaver, and yet you couldn't but perceive that he was a gentleman. When he had sate for a minute or two after his draught he went out of the room, leaving it to Pen and his uncle, that they might talk over family affairs were they so inclined. "Rough and ready, your chum seems," the Major said. "Somewhat different from your dandy friends at Oxbridge."
But for this, implicit faith suffices the faith of the coalheaver, the faith of those who, like St. "Do not ask me the reason of that, for I am ignorant; Holy Mother Church possesses doctors who will know how to answer you," as we were made to learn in the Catechism.
But to return. Who hesitates to make way for a coalheaver? As for their drays as consecutive a species of vehicles as a body can be stopped by every one knows they make way for themselves. I one Sunday met a party of my favourites in St. Paul's cathedral.
By all accounts 'tisn' so easy to get in an' 'tis a sight harder to get out." "I've got to get in," urged Tilda desperately. "I've a message for someone inside. His name's Arthur Miles Chandon." The young coalheaver shook his head. "I don't know 'im," he said. "I'm new to this job, an' they don't talk to me through the coal-'ole.
"The 'andiest way," said the young coalheaver, after considering for half a minute, "an' the quietest, is for me to cast off the bow-straps here an' let her drop across stream. You can nip up through the garden yonder it don't belong to nobody just now. That'll bring you out into a place called Pollard's Row, an' you turn straight off on your right.
Cholera. During the late panic, a coalheaver went into a tobacconist's shop to purchase a halfpenny worth of pig-tail, when a gentleman asked him if he was in any alarm about the cholera? "No, measter," he said, "them says it's only among the lower classes like." Calves-Head Roll.
If he declares himself, you must kill him." "Peste!" said the coalheaver; "let us try to prevent his doing so." There was no reply, and all was again silent. A quarter of an hour passed, and then the center windows were lighted up. "Ah! ah! there is something new," they both exclaimed together. At this moment they heard the step of a man, who came from the Rue St.
He spoke this last phrase slowly and significantly, lingering on the word "other," as if he wished its whole awesome meaning to penetrate well into Merlin's brain. "What is your advice then, Citizen Lenoir?" Apparently, by unanimous consent, the coalheaver, from some obscure province of France, had been tacitly acknowledged the leader of the band.
The allusion is to the traditional story of the coalheaver whom the devil sought to convince of the irrationality of belief in the Trinity. The coalheaver took the cloak that he was wearing and folded it in three folds. "Here are three folds," he said, "and the cloak though threefold is yet one." And the devil departed baffled.
I'd be ANYTHING I'm strong; a messenger or a coalheaver. I'd put on a gold-laced cap and open carriage-doors in front of the haberdasher's; I'd hang about a station, to carry portmanteaus; I'd be a postman. But they won't LOOK at you; there are thousands, as good as yourself, already on the ground. GENTLEMEN, poor beggars, who have drunk their wine, who have kept their hunters!"
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