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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I did remember her as a ragged, dirty-faced child, forlorn and neglected, like most of the children about here. It was a wonderful transformation. "'And now, I said, 'tell me how all this has come about. "'Well, you see, Mr. Paulding, she answered, 'there was no use in John and me trying to be anything down there. It was temptation on every hand, and we were weak and easily tempted.
Presently he returned followed by the ragged, dirty-faced little Hottentot, who, looking very miserable and ashamed of himself, took off his hat and squatted down on the drive, in the full glare of the African sun, to the effects of which he appeared to be totally impervious. "Now, Jantje, listen to me," said the old man. "Yesterday you got drunk again.
'When they're in a good humour, interposed the dirty-faced man. 'And that's very true, said the placid one. 'I repudiate that qualification, said Mr. Snodgrass, whose thoughts were fast reverting to Emily Wardle. 'I repudiate it with disdain with indignation. Show me the man who says anything against women, as women, and I boldly declare he is not a man. And Mr.
Ragged indeed was this reclaimed wanderer; saucy and dirty-faced was this sprouting young maiden, but she was sharp-witted, and scented money as quickly as if she had been the oldest hag of her tribe; so she asked her customer to walk up stairs, which he did.
"Miss Abbott," roared a rugged, dirty-faced, bare-footed boy, who entered without knocking, and stood in the middle of the room, with his hat on, with a suddenness that denoted great readiness in entering other people's possessions; "Miss Abbott, ma' wants to know if you are likely to go from home this week?" "Why, what in nature can she want to know that for, Ordeal Bumgrum?" Mrs.
A second later she was in his arms and he was kissing her to the scandal of one aged park keeper, one small and dirty-faced little boy and a moulting duck who seemed to sneer at the proceedings which he watched through a yellow and malignant eye.
The streets were lined with small unpainted frame houses and dirty-faced children ran screaming in the dusty roadway. They crossed over a bridge. Two abandoned coal barges lay rotting in the stream. He went along by her side walking heavily, striving to conceal his hands.
The truth is, every season and climate has its peculiar beauties and comforts; the footprints of the good and merciful God are found everywhere; and we should be willing thankfully to own that 'He has made all things beautiful in their time' if we were not a race of envious, selfish, ungrateful grumblers." "Doctor! Doctor!" cried a ragged, dirty-faced boy, running breathless into the yard.
Then he added to the assembled family: "For boys dirty-faced, good-for-nothing, long-legged boys! I'm going to have a law passed making an open season for boys in this place from January first until Christmas." Jeanette dimpled and blushed, the family smiled, and her mother said: "Well, John, there'll be a flock of them at Jeanette's party next week for you to practise on.
A troop of dirty-faced children was in the yard, and in the corner was a pile of other household incumbrances, consisting principally of mops and washtubs. Johannes critically examined this interesting collection, but the wished-for broomstick was not there.
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