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"I sat in the tavern on the harbor hill all the time, so as to keep an eye on you; I couldn't resist looking at you, you looked so delightfully thirsty. I wonder you didn't lie down flat and drink out of the sea, every man Jack of you!" In the afternoon the cottagers' wives and the farm-girls sat round the great heaps of herring by the pump, and cleaned the fish.

"Do you promise Mina, do you see that pretty flower over there, the blue one I mean, will you bring it to me, I want to smell it do you promise," he repeated as soon as Mina was out of hearing, "never to flirt with any of those confounded farm-girls?" "Oh, Mr. Bräsig, do you take me for a scoundrel?" asked Rudolph, turning away angrily.

Frank, who had always wanted to see things blacker than they were, for once wanted to believe less than he saw. The woman lying in the shadow might so easily be one of the Bergsons' farm-girls.... Again the murmur, like water welling out of the ground. This time he heard it more distinctly, and his blood was quicker than his brain.

A little later, just before ten o'clock, while the sunset glow was still brooding on the harvest fields, the two farm-girls, after a last visit to the cows, slipped into the little sitting-room. Janet, who was mending her Sunday dress, greeted them with a smile and a kind word. Then she moved to the table and took up a New Testament that was lying there.

Noble behaviour, Mr. Harry Jocelyn! I shall remember my young English gentleman. The view was totally new to Harry. 'I really had no idea of compromising you, he said. 'Upon my honour, I can't see how I did it now! 'Oblige me by walking less in the neighbourhood of those fat-faced glaring farm-girls, the Countess spoke under her breath; 'and don't look as if you were being whipped.

Janet threw in a few civil words. Rachel Henderson had moved to the window, and was apparently looking at the farm-girls carrying straw across the yard. "Good-night, Miss Henderson," said the young man at last, conscious of rebuff, but irrepressibly effusive and friendly all the time. "I hope you will let your Ralstone girl come sometimes to the clubroom my sister and I have in the village?

Where does the soul go in sleep? Surely mine flies back to where all of you dear people are. I came back to my farm yesterday to find a bouquet of paper flowers at the head of my bed with a note pinned on it. Over my fire-place was hung a pathetic pair of farm-girls' heavy Sunday boots, all brightly polished, with two other notes pinned on them. The Feast of St.

"I sat in the tavern on the harbor hill all the time, so as to keep an eye on you; I couldn't resist looking at you, you looked so delightfully thirsty. I wonder you didn't lie down flat and drink out of the sea, every man Jack of you!" In the afternoon the cottagers' wives and the farm-girls sat round the great heaps of herring by the pump, and cleaned the fish.

Noble behaviour, Mr. Harry Jocelyn! I shall remember my young English gentleman. The view was totally new to Harry. 'I really had no idea of compromising you, he said. 'Upon my honour, I can't see how I did it now! 'Oblige me by walking less in the neighbourhood of those fat-faced glaring farm-girls, the Countess spoke under her breath; 'and don't look as if you were being whipped.