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As these are near to the settlement, they had time to get their food from the cook-shop. Chairs, tables, plates, knives, forks, they had none; they sat, as I before said, on the earth or doorsteps, and ate either out of their little cedar tubs, or an iron pot, some few with broken iron spoons, more with pieces of wood, and all the children with their fingers.
The wooden houses, with their jutting storeys and quaint gable-peaks; the doorsteps and thresholds with the early grass springing up about them; the garden-plots, black with freshly-turned earth; the wheel-track, little worn, and even in the market-place margined with green on either side all were visible, but with a singularity of aspect that seemed to give another moral interpretation to the things of this world than they had ever borne before.
Three days later Miss Derrick arrived, bringing with her something like half-a-ton of luggage. She bounded up the doorsteps, and, meeting Mrs. Mumford in the hall, kissed her fervently. 'I've got such heaps to tell you Mr. Higgins has given me twenty pounds to go on with for myself; I mean; of course he'll pay everything else. How delighted I am to be here!
At another moment, when descanting upon all her children collectively in one of her faithfully reported addresses to her familiar: "'My own family, I says, 'has fallen out of three-pair backs, and had damp doorsteps settled on their lungs, and one was turned up smilin' in a bedstead unbeknown.
Eugene could see at a glance that here was middle class prosperity, smooth lawns, bright awnings, flower pots of blue and yellow and green upon the porches, doorsteps and verandas.
They have all something to do with ships, sailors, and commerce; being for the sale of ships' stores, nautical instruments, arms, clothing, together with a tavern and grog-shop at every other door; bookstalls, too, covered with cheap novels and song-books; cigar-shops in great numbers; and everywhere were sailors, and here and there a soldier, and children at the doorsteps, and women showing themselves at the doors or windows of their domiciles.
May, and expressed his regret to learn how ill he was, the young man smoked a cigar on the doorsteps, and then went peaceably, without either care or anxiety, to bed, where he slept very soundly till eight o'clock next morning, which was the hour at which he was called, though he did not always get up. When Mr.
Three cheers for the barbarians!" sang out Firefly. "I do hope Virginia will be beautiful," whispered Polly, under her breath. Helen went and stood on the doorsteps. Polly suddenly raised a colored lamp, and waved it above her head.
I believe they imagine his wife as appearing much as their own wives, his children as the little children who run about their own doorsteps. They do not stretch their imaginations to conceive any strangeness about his home surroundings to correspond with his own strangeness. To them Henry has the dignity of a man and a householder, possibly a rate-payer. He seems quite happy and amused.
"Good boy," he whispered. Frowenfeld rose and straightened the bedclothes, took a few steps about the room, and finally returned. The Doctor's restless eye had followed him at every movement. "You'll go?" "Yes," replied the apothecary, hat in hand; "where is it?" "Corner Bienville and Bourbon, upper river corner, yellow one-story house, doorsteps on street. You know the house?" "I think I do."
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