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It would not be all as dull as ditch-water just driving one to do something to get away from the girls and their fads." This was nearly a fortnight from the night of crisis, when Wilfred, very weak, was still in bed; when Primrose and Lily were up and about, but threatened with whooping cough.
Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. The sides met midway of a marshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broad new road, good for ten abreast counting a step of the slopes ran transverse; and the order of the game was to clear the bank and drive the enemy on to the frozen ditch-water.
Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. The sides met midway of a marshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broad new road, good for ten abreast counting a step of the slopes ran transverse; and the order of the game was to clear the bank and drive the enemy on to the frozen ditch-water.
"Aren't the true Church the people who are justified by the event?" "The orthodox like to think so," said Cliffe. "But the heretics have a way of coming out top." "Does that mean you chaps are going to win at the next election? I devoutly hope you may we're all as stale as ditch-water and as for places, anybody's welcome to mine!"
Some of the servants who had betaken themselves to bed were drenched with putrid ditch-water as they lay, and arose in great fright, muttering incoherent prayers, and exposing to the wondering eyes of the commissioners their linen all dripping with green moisture, and their knuckles red with the blows they had at the same time received from some invisible tormentors.
That smell is compounded of green ditch-water, damp plaster, wet clothing, blood, straw, and antiseptics. The nose took it as we crossed the canal, and held it till we shook ourselves on the run home. Thirty minutes a day in that soggy wreck pulled at my spirits for hours afterward.
The hellicat ne'er-do-weel! to bring such a crew here, that will expect to find brandy as plenty as ditch-water, and he kenning sae absolutely the case in whilk we stand for the present! But I trow, could I get rid of thae gaping gowks of flunkies that hae won into the courtyard at the back of their betters, as mony a man gets preferment, I could make a' right yet."
So feeble were we that we could hardly move, nevertheless we have made a shift to crawl hither, trusting to your hospitality to recruit us from the sawdust and ditch-water which we vehemently suspect to have been our diet during the whole of our residence."
He looked a size too large for it, and for the other speakers, and his loose tweed suit and heather stockings were as great a contrast to the tightly buttoned-up black of the other occupants as were his strong, keen face and muscular hands to those of the previous speakers. "That's a man," said a masculine voice behind Rachel. "He worn't reared on ditch-water, you bet." "Mr.
"Not dead, not dead?" said Honoria in deep agitation. "Dead as ditch-water," replied his lordship. "I heard it at the club. There was a lawyer fellow there dining with somebody there, and they got talking about Bingham, when the lawyer said, 'Oh, he's Sir Geoffrey Bingham now. Old Sir Robert's heir is dead. I saw the telegram myself." "Oh, this is almost too good to be true," said Honoria.
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