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Cesar Birotteau was delighted with the extreme politeness of Molineux, whom he found wrapped in a gray woollen dressing-gown, watching his milk in a little metal heater on the edge of his fireplace, while his coffee-grounds were boiling in a little brown earthenware jug from which, every now and then, he poured a few drops into his coffee-pot.
Three minutes later we were stopped and boarded by Scouts up our backs, down our necks, and in our boots! The last I heard from your Mr. Leggatt as he went under, brushin' 'em off his cap, was thanking Heaven he'd covered up the new paint-work with mats. An 'eroic soul! 'Not a scratch on her body, said Leggatt, pouring out the coffee-grounds. 'And Jules? said I.
Water meandered over this mud, or carved its soft way in channels; it lay about in puddles, thick and dark as coffee-grounds; it filled abandoned shallow holes to the brim. From this scene rose a blurred hum of sound; rose and as it were remained stationary above it like a smoke-cloud, which no wind comes to drive away.
I wept and prayed, and at last my mother consented, after having first sent for a so-called wise-woman out of the hospital, that she might read my future fortune by the coffee-grounds and cards. "'Your son will become a great man! said the old woman; 'and in honour of him all Odense will one day be illuminated. "My mother wept when she heard that, and I obtained permission to travel."
In severe cases, and especially when the vomited matter resembles coffee-grounds from admixture with altered blood the so-called post-operative hæmatemesis the best means of arresting the vomiting is by washing out the stomach. Thirst is relieved by rectal injections of saline solution.
No oblateness whatever. It proves that she once revolved, otherwise she'd be pear-shaped, from the sun's pull." There was a short silence, during which Billie concluded that the only scraps left would be the coffee-grounds.
When the sinister-looking cylinder struck the pavement it exploded, but instead of death and destruction the flaggings were strewn with egg-shells, coffee-grounds, and garbage. "I always did like that French chef," said Lawrence when he returned to the bridge, gasping for breath.
It was that slack hour between the lingering breakfast and coming luncheon when the tables are partly stripped and unknown doors, opened for ventilation, reveal the distant kitchen, and a mingled flavor of cold coffee-grounds and lukewarm soups hangs heavy on the air.
I suggested to the wagon-master to boil some old coffee-grounds after we had eaten our dinner, and with some sugar and crackers or something of that character, give them to the Indians, which was done. In the afternoon we moved out on the road toward Kearney and ahead of us was a train going unloaded to the same place.
I wept, I prayed, and at last my mother consented, after having first sent for a so-called wise woman out of the hospital, that she might read my future fortune by the coffee-grounds and cards. "Your son will become a great man," said the old woman, "and in honor of him, Odense will one day be illuminated." My mother wept when she heard that, and I obtained permission to travel.
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