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Updated: June 26, 2025
We could not ask him to eat in the best kitchen, as was our practice, and he showed himself rather dismayed at our having only one sitting-room, saying he had not thought the cottage such a dog-hole, or known that it would be inhabited by a lady; and then he paid some pretty compliment on the feminine hand evident in the room.
Fresh layers are swiftly added to the dab of clay; and soon the tube is divided by a partition which has a circular opening at the side of it, a sort of dog-hole through which the Osmia will proceed to knead the Bee-bread. When the victualling is finished and the egg laid upon the heap, the whole is closed and the filled-up partition becomes the bottom of the next cell.
They had sacrificed the asparagus in order to build on the spot an Etruscan tomb, that is to say, a quadrilateral figure in dark plaster, six feet in height, and looking like a dog-hole. Four little pine trees at the corners flanked the monument, which was to be surmounted by an urn and enriched by an inscription.
These craft have each a little cabin, the prettiest, charming-est, most delightful little dog-hole in the world; not much bigger than an old-fashioned alcove for a bed. It is lighted by little round glasses placed in the deck; so that to the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.
The grooms came and soundly flogged me for uncomely speech of my Lady Anne! I that was eighteen years with my Lord Cardinal, and none laid hand on me! Yea, I was beaten; and then shut up in a dog-hole for three days on bread and water, with none to speak to, but the other fools jeering at me like a rogue in a pillory."
It was a blackguard-looking fellow, who put a piece of dirty paper in my hand; summoned me to appear at some dog-hole or another, I forget where. Not understanding the business, I enclosed it to a legal friend, who returned an answer, that it was a summons to the Court of Rights; that no gentleman could go there; and that I had better let the thing take its course.
"Aye, ye did so, pal, groaning ye might call it aye, fit to chill a man's good blood!" "And neither you nor Adam nor the others thought to search this dog-hole of mine?" "Lord love ye no, Mart'n! How should three men hide here?" "Three men? Aye, true enough!" says I, clasping my head to stay the rush and hurry of my thoughts.
"But how old you have grown! Ah-ah! How old are you?" "Thirty." "And you look as though you were fifty, lean, yellow. Life isn't sweet to you, it seems? And you are drinking, too, I see." Foma felt sorry to see his jolly and brisk schoolmate so worn out, and living in this dog-hole, which seemed to be swollen from burns.
So in the end I did it on beneath my doublet and found it to irk me nothing. "And now, what?" he questioned, as I opened the door. "Sleep," says I, yawning. "There's a bunk yonder, Martin," says he, eyeing me 'twixt narrowed lids. "Nay, I'm for my dog-hole, Adam." "You seem to sleep much and mighty well, despite stench and rats, shipmate."
'Severity! said the fellow, with a kind of groan, 'I wish you had had my dreams when I first came to this dog-hole, and tried to sleep among the dry seaweed. First, there was that d-d fellow there, with his broken back, sprawling as he did when I hurled the rock over a-top on him, ha, ha! You would have sworn he was lying on the floor where you stand, wriggling like a crushed frog, and then
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