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I found no one there but two or three dirtily dressed, miserable, poor children, who told me that I should find their father at some house in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. Thither I repaired, meditating as I went along on the wretched emblem of the distresses of the times, which I had just witnessed in the family of Mr. Thomas Preston.
All blinds were drawn down for the most part over all windows; what light came from the sky came like light seen through dusty glass; the grim brown hue of the brick houses looked more dirtily mournful than ever; the smoke from the chimney-pots was lost mysteriously in deepening superincumbent fog; the muddy gutters gurgled; the heavy rain-drops dripped into empty areas audibly.
Already most of our grandchildren die before they have sense enough to know how to live. And to fight. But is it long enough for the other things, the great things? Will they live long enough to eat manna? ADAM. What is manna? EVE. Food drawn down from heaven, made out of the air, not dug dirtily from the earth. Will they learn all the ways of all the stars in their little time?
I know you think I'm an utter fool, father, but, after all, though, aren't business and politics just the housekeeping part of life? And wouldn't you despise a woman that not only made her housekeeping her ambition, but did it so noisily and dirtily that the whole neighborhood was in a continual turmoil over it?
A cow-skin was now spread, and a wooden stool set for me, that I might assume a better state than my suite, who were squatted in a circle around me. With the usual precaution of African nobles, the lady's-maid was first sent to introduce herself an ugly halting creature, very dirtily garbed, but possessing a smiling contented face.
No splendour marks their sunset where I sit, no dignity of houses, or derelict engines of war, mined all equally are scattered dirtily in the mud, and common weeds overpower them; it is not ruin but rubbish that covers the ground here and spreads its untidy flood for hundreds and hundreds of miles. A band plays in Arras, to the north and east the shells go thumping on.
The tarnished mirrors reflected dirtily the growing daylight; a door closed, far away, and I heard the crowing of a cock; then by and by the whistle of a passing train. Years seemed to have passed since I first came into this terrible room.
"Say," whispered Yetta as they worked busily and dirtily, "Say, I'm monitors now. On'y I ain't got no papers." "You ask her. She'll give you one." "I'd have a shamed the while she gives me und my mamma whole bunches of things already. She could to think, maybe, I'm a greedy. But I needs that paper awful much. I needs I shall go on the country for see mine papa."
The dress of the people approaches in character to the Oriental; all were very scantily, dirtily, and raggedly clothed. Near Selik I was surprised by the sight of a fig-tree and another large tree. In this country trees are rare. The mountains surrounding us were naked and barren, and in the valleys there grew at most some wild artichokes or beautiful thistles and chrysanthemums.
"I'm going to sail away next week or steam dirtily away on a tramp called the Maud Allen Wing." "Where to?" "Malta." "Where from?" "London Dock. I fixed up my passage this morning for ten pounds. I am cook's assistant, signed on." Aaron looked at him with a little admiration. "You can take a sudden jump, can't you?" he said. "The difficulty is to refrain from jumping: overboard or anywhere."
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