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"Dammit, they micht let folk get washed," he said angrily. When he heard the voice of the minister, he plunged his head into the tub, and began splashing and rubbing, and lifting the water over his head. "Oh, you are busy washing, I see, Mr. Sinclair," observed the minister, looking at the naked collier.
Van Dyke, with Miss Cameron at the foot of the table flanked by O'Dowd and De Soto. Van Dyke had nearly the whole of the opposite side of the table to himself. There was, to be sure, a place set between him and De Soto, for symmetry's sake, Barnes concluded. In this he was mistaken; they had barely seated themselves when Mrs. Collier remarked: "Mr.
"I think Collier must have spoken to Mame and got the same answer, for one day he orders a cup of coffee and a cracker, and sits nibbling the corner of it like a girl in the parlour, that's filled up in the kitchen, previous, on cold roast and fried cabbage. I caught on and did the same, and maybe we thought we'd made a hit!
"Oh, I'm neutral, a sort of referee, and have a worse time than anybody," he replied, and I was glad that fate had not decreed that I should be born into the Collier family. I am sure that had I been able to find any one else to talk to, I should have left Nina alone after she had refused to go to the 'Varsity match.
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You'll excuse me, now, Jeff, for I smell a pervasion of ham frying in the distance, and my legs are crying out to stampede in that direction. "'A hearty meal to you, Ed Collier, I says to him, 'and no hard feelings. For myself, I am projected to be an unseldom eater, and I have condolence for your predicaments.
This is not a common happening," continued Carlton with much composure, "and I thank my Maker I was not carried into that hold to be a hog's dinner. Yet I give you my word of honor that the tale is true." "Lord! it was a cruel ending for a gallant gentleman," said Collier, "and it makes gruesome telling.
"I mean," replied Abe with great earnestness, "that I'm gooin to turn collier." "Nay, niver, lad!" cried his wife in dismay. "Why, it's only for a bit till things brighten up in aar loine, and then thaa knows I can get wark at th' mill agean." Poor Sally wept in earnest now; it was a shock to her feelings that she was not prepared for.
The novelist having little character to lose, and having few readers among serious people, took without scruple liberties which in our generation seem almost incredible. Miss Burney did for the English novel what Jeremy Collier did for the English drama; and she did it in a better way.
The simple people, coasting along in their light balsas or rafts, had seen the coming of what to them were then wondrous ships, cock-boats, though, as compared even to our collier brigs.
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