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"Aye, it's a bit dampish," said Dixon, as he brought a couple more logs to replenish a fire that seemed to have no heart for burning. The absurd moderation of the statement irritated the person to whom it was addressed. "What I'm thinkin'" said Mrs. Dixon, impatiently, as she moved to the window "is that they'll mappen not get here at all! The watter'll be over t' road by Grier's mill.
The whole southern portion of Illinois has been nicknamed "Egypt," whether because at its utmost point, on a dampish delta, reposes the far-famed city of Cairo, or whether, as wicked satirists pretend, its denizens have been found, in certain particulars, rather behind our times in intellectual light. Whatever may have been the original excuse for the sobriquet, the derogatory one exists no more.
The gardener found the poor wretch in the morning aching with cramp and bailed up in a dampish corner by the dust-bin, by a wolfhound who kept just half an inch of white fang exposed, and responded with a truly awe-inspiring throaty snarl to the slightest hint of movement on the tramp's part.
He struck a match, and descended two or three steps of the ladder, and then called out to me to follow. The air was not foul, but it was close, and there was a dampish smell upon it, and it was charged with a fishy odour like that of decaying spawn and dead marine vegetation. Light fell through the companion-way, and a sort of blurred dimness drained through the grimy skylight.
"Sorry to incommode you," said their visitor ironically. "I'm afraid your beds are dampish; perhaps you had better go to your brother's room; I've left the ceiling on there." They required no second admonition, but rushed into Gluck's room, wet through, and in an agony of terror. "You'll find my card on the kitchen table," the old gentleman called after them. "Remember, the LAST visit."
The little dressing room was airless and full of sunlight, and no sound from the outside world disturbed its pleasant, peaceful, dampish atmosphere. In the pauses of conversation the shrillings of the canary were alone audible and suggested the distant piping of a flute. "Listen," he said, planting himself in front of her, "I've come to possess myself of you again. Yes, I want to begin again.
Why, turn and twist you ever so much, you do not lose your reckoning. "'Not by a long chalk! This child had his bringing-up at Wapakonnetta, and that's a fact. "From the bottom we went on in a dampish sort of a passage, gloomily lit up with one candle.
I was to have spent a few days there, but Wynberg is cold at night and dampish, so I declined that. She is a nice woman Irish, and so innocent and frank and well-bred. She has been at Cold Bokke Veld, and shocked her puritanical host by admiring the naked Caffres who worked on his farm. He wanted them to wear clothes.
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