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Ancoats, however, appeared again to invite me to withdraw, and to suggest the names of two seconds who would, he assured me, be delighted to act for me. I pointed out to him that I was unpacked, and that to turn me out dinnerless would be simply barbarous.
He paid his first weekly bill at his boarding-house by aid of the remnant of the sovereign left for pocket-money. Next week saw him in debt. The third week saw him dinnerless.
"Oh, let the brat alone, and let's get to our grub!" said Potts, with an extreme nervous irritation. Mac swept Kaviak off the stool. "You come with me!" Only one person spoke after that till the meal was nearly done. That one had said, "Yes, Farva," and followed Mac, dinnerless, out to the Little Cabin. The Colonel set aside a plateful for each of the two absent ones, and cleared away the things.
In times of the greatest scarcity, many a person went dinnerless to the theatre, eating whatever scrap he could procure, and consoling himself by the idea of being amused for the evening, and at the same time saving at home the expense of fire and candle.
They are in precisely the same condition as respects family living, and expenditure Yet the one says he cannot save, and does not; while the other says he can save, and regularly deposits part of his savings in a savings bank, and eventually becomes a capitalist. Samuel Johnson fully knew the straits of poverty. He once signed his name Impransus, or Dinnerless.
"These Provinces may soon proclaim joint action against such pests as you." With a shrug, the Secretary turned to his crestfallen nephew and sharply exclaimed: "Home with you, John Cockrell. You shall go dinnerless and be locked in your room." The seamen guffawed at this and Jack furiously resented their ridicule.
He silently lighted a fire of withered twigs on his ready-furnished hearthstone; put to roast among their embers a few potatoes which he had begged during the day; divided them between her and her crying children; and, as the moon rising high in the heavens warned him that night asserted her full empire over the departed day, Shamus sank down upon the couch from which his father's mortal remains had lately been borne, supperless himself, and dinnerless, too, but not hungry; at least not conscious or recollecting that he was.
No, it was no fun camping with the temperature at thirty degrees below zero better to be trotting after those expensive and dinnerless dogs; and he was glad when they started again. But once beyond the scant shelter of the cottonwood, it was evident the wind had risen. It was blowing straight out of the north and into their faces.
Innes, the school-master's wife a stout, kind-hearted woman, the fine condition of whose temperament was clearly the result of her physical prosperity appeared at the door which led to the dwelling-house above, bearing in her hands a huge tureen of potato-soup, for her motherly heart could not longer endure the thought of dinnerless boys.
Timothy was so glad to find it no worse that he wasted a moment in embracing the dog, whose delirious joy at the prospect of this probably dinnerless and supperless expedition was ludicrously exaggerated. Then he took up the rope and trundled the chariot gently down a side street leading to the station. Everything worked to a charm.
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