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Any one who was slack in fulfilling his duties after the death of the head of a family would have no one at his own funeral." The doctor had reached the cowhouse as he spoke; he opened the door and made the commandant enter, that he might show it to him. "All our cowhouses have been rebuilt after this pattern, captain. Look! Is it not magnificent?" Genestas could not help admiring the huge place.
The poor little lie was written in a trembling hand which shook honestly enough, but from the torment of other feelings. Philip answered the letter in person. It was evening. Kate was milking, and he went out to her in the cowhouse. "We began to think we were to see no more of you," she said, over the rattle of the milk in the pail. "I've I've been ill," said Philip.
At one time there had been a cow for every stall in the cowshed; and the oxshed, which was now empty, had at one time been filled with oxen. And then there was life and gayety, both in cabin and cowhouse. When the mistress opened the cowshed door she would hum and sing, and all the cows lowed with gladness when they heard her coming.
The days were long and the light was not yet failing. Beyond the gorse, the willows, the reeds, the rushes and the sally bushes of the flat land, the sun was setting over a streak of gold on the sea. They had left behind them the smell of burning turf, of crackling sticks, of fish, and of the cowhouse, and were come into the atmosphere of flowering gorse and damp scraa soil and brine.
Conspicuous in black clothes and white shirt-sleeves, the Rector was hewing with an axe at the boarding of a cowhouse, the door end of which was already in flames, and his voice could be heard above the tumult shouting directions to which nobody paid any heed. "What's in that cow-house?" gasped Mr. Pendyce. Mrs.
'There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little. Now it happens that, while he has received the money for the fat cattle, he has not yet paid the price of the thin ones, which he has in the cowhouse.
"Well, sir," said Thomas, "I heard the pup bark and untied him, and I was just coming out of the cowhouse, with the pup in my arms, when 'Rose' came round the corner. As soon as she see'd the pup in my arms, she rushed at me without more ado, knocked me down, and would have killed me if you hadn't come up."
Smike had run away, and Squeers's anger was at white heat against him and every one else. "He is off," said Mrs. Squeers, angrily. "The cowhouse and stable are locked up, so he can't be there; and he's not down stairs anywhere. He must have gone York way, and by a public road too. Then of course," continued Mrs.
At length the pale dawn drew near, and Morva slept a heavy dreamless sleep, which lasted till Ann called her for the churning. Cowhouse. "Morva, lass," said Ann, "what's the matter to-day? No breakfast; after thy work at the churn, too?" "Well, indeed," said Morva, "I drank so much butter milk that I don't want much breakfast." "Come, lass," said Ebben Owens, "hard work wants good feeding."
A thatched cottage three fields back from the mountain road, two rooms, a cowhouse, a crock, a dresser, a press, a form, a three-legged stool, an armchair, and a clock with a dirty face, hanging on a nail in the wall. Milking, weeding, digging, ninepence a day, and a can of buttermilk, with a lump of butter thrown in. Potatoes, herrings, and barley bonnag.
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