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"A civil engineer, I think," he answered. "You see, I'm a crank on fresh air and building things and he seems to be like me. This cooped-up city life is pretty narrowing, don't you think?" "It's fierce!" I returned heartily, with more warmth than elegance. "Sometimes I wish I could chuck the whole business and go to farming." "Why not?" he asked as we climbed a small rise behind the house.
The excuse most frequently heard in San Francisco for the restaurant habit, and for living in cooped-up apartments, is that the wife wants to get away from the burden of the kitchen and drudgery of housework.
In every little cooped-up, dingy cavern of a hut, faint with the odor of burning Josh-lights and with nothing to see the gloom by save the sickly, guttering tallow candle, were two or three yellow, long-tailed vagabonds, coiled up on a sort of short truckle-bed, smoking opium, motionless and with their lustreless eyes turned inward from excess of satisfaction or rather the recent smoker looks thus, immediately after having passed the pipe to his neighbor for opium-smoking is a comfortless operation, and requires constant attention.
Above and behind him on the poop, Lord Julian and Miss Bishop looked on, his lordship aghast at the fury of this cooped-up fighting, the lady's brave calm conquered at last by horror so that she reeled there sick and faint. Soon, however, the rage of that brief fight was spent. They saw the banner of Castile come fluttering down from the masthead.
Till then she would hope for the best. When Miss Wimple reached her humble little nest, she knelt beside her bed and prayed, tearfully, to the God who averts danger and forgives sin; but she did not sleep all night. In the morning a gossiping neighbor came with the news; "that little cooped-up Wimple never hears anything," she thought. Miss Madeline Splurge had disappeared. Mr.
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