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The boys had become tired of waiting down at the boat, the "bagman" especially, since it was clearly past dinner-time; the bell had rung over at the dry-dock, and the town boys had already passed from school.
"The stupid brute," he said, "thinks neither of the race-ground or the hunting-field, or his green paddock at Bucklaw, but enjoys himself as comfortably when haltered to the rack in this ruinous vault, as if he had been foaled in it; and, I who have the freedom of a prisoner at large, to range through the dungeons of this wretched old tower, can hardly, betwixt whistling and sleeping, contrive to pass away the hour till dinner-time."
"Now he'll carry her off," said Miss Vesta, "and we sha'n't see her again till dinner-time. You'd think she was his child, not ours. But so it is, in this world." "What has crossed you this morning, Sister?" asked Miss Rejoice, mildly. "You seem put about." "Oh, the cat got into the tea-kettle." replied the elder sister. "Don't fret your blessed self if I am cross.
It wanted only half an hour to dinner-time, and there was the meat roasting away by itself, and the potatoe-pan boiling over. You never heard such a fizzling as it made in your life in short, everything was in a mess, and there was no cook. "Well! I basted the meat for a few minutes, took the potatoe-pan off the fire, and then ran up-stairs to put on my bonnet.
And the full, soft pallor of her neck and shoulders, above a gold-coloured frock, gave to her personality an alluring strangeness. Soames stood behind, his eyes fastened on his wife's neck. The hands of Swithin's watch, which he still held open in his hand, had left eight behind; it was half an hour beyond his dinner-time he had had no lunch and a strange primeval impatience surged up within him.
At the humans' dinner-time he scorned their expensive fare and sneaked away into the shadows of the garden to wait for Ringtail Pete and the rising of the moon. It rose; and, as it peeped above the wall, there also rose a cautious signal-wail, and Pete's one eye glowed green among the ivy-vines. "Hi, spote!" grinned the owner of the eye, as Omar Ben clawed his way to a perch beside him.
The men were at dinner, and a good smell of food filled the trench. This was the first smell I had encountered in my long travels uphill a mixed, entirely wholesome flavour of stew, leather, earth, and rifle-oil. A proportion of men were standing to arms while others ate; but dinner-time is slack time, even among animals, and it was close on noon.
Gilbert, take your father out and show him your farm. Mother, it is near dinner-time; I will help you set the table. After dinner, Mr. Barton, you and I will ride home together." Her words were obeyed; each one felt that no more should be said at that time.
You see the names are all on the picture, too; I am going to make it smaller, and put it in the book I will write for you, so you can look at it whenever you wish. "It is almost dinner-time now, and you must be very hungry. But now I must tell you one thing more. You know there are so many, many different kinds of birds and other animals that nobody could remember them unless they were classified.
Have a piece more bacon, Miss Eva; it's hot and will keep you going till dinner-time you've a long morning before you, remember, urged the housekeeper. Then she made up a little parcel with Eva's lunch, for she declared it was extravagant to pay sixpence a day for dinner when she could always give them pies or sandwiches to eat at midday, and cook them a nice hot dinner in the evening.
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