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Bullard shook him, whispering savagely: "Get up, you fool! It's all right; we've done the trick " "O God, don't let his ghost get me! He was the first I ever killed, O God, and I wanted the money bad " "Curse you, Flitch! What the devil's the matter? If you won't come now, I must leave you to get caught and that's the end of you!" Bullard gripped him by the collar and dragged him to his knees.
"An obsession, if you like," said Alan with a grave smile. "During all the time of my convalescence, and in all the periods of leisure that followed, I kept wondering what on earth had made Flitch want to kill me. We had never had anything like a quarrel, and what had he to gain by my death? He had robbed me of nothing. It's a great big 'Why, and I've got to find the answer to it.
The Chaplain has often told me, that upon a Catechising-day, when Sir ROGER has been pleased with a Boy that answers well, he has ordered a Bible to be given him next Day for his Encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a Flitch of Bacon to his Mother.
Upon no account would he have taken any money, and for the matter of that the people who came to consult him were too poor to give him any, but one brought a dozen eggs, another a flitch of bacon, a third a jar of butter, or some fruit. He made no scruple about accepting these, and though the nobles in the towns ridiculed him, they were very wrong in doing so.
Her stress on the word and her look thrilled De Craye; for there had been a long conversation between the young lady and the dame. "It was an article that dropped and was not stolen," said he. "Barely sweet enough to keep, then!" "I think I could have felt to it like poor Flitch, the flyman, who was the finder."
The young lady starts behind the cart, and up jumps the colonel, and, to save the young lady, Flitch dashed ahead and did save her, he thanked Heaven for it, and more when he came to see who the young lady was. "She was alone?" said Sir Willoughby in tragic amazement, staring at Flitch. "Very well, you saved her, and you upset the fly," Mountstuart jogged him on.
I saw myself the inheritor of Trewlove's cast-off personality, his inelegancies of movement, his religious opinions, his bagginess at the knees, his mournful, pensile whiskers This would never do! I must concentrate my mind on the play. Let me see The title can wait. Two married couples have just been examined at Dunmow, and awarded the 'historic' flitch for conjugal happiness.
Coiled up with his legs under him on the warm stone seat, his head resting against one of the two walls that bolstered him up on either hand, beneath a great flitch of bacon that hung there to dry, he had lain asleep throughout the preceding conversation, only punctuating its periods at intervals with somewhat too audible indications of slumber. In an instant he was on his feet.
On your estate I not only know the dogs, but I have just finished an inspection and I know the location of every dairy, smoke- house, larder and oven, I might almost say of every loaf, cheese, ham, flitch, wine-vat and oil-jar on the estate, not to mention every store- room where I might get us hats, tunics, sandals, quilts and what not.
It was not the first time his brother had been forced to help him, and you may fancy he wasn't very glad to see his face, but he said: 'If you will do what I ask you to do, I'll give you a whole flitch of bacon. So the poor brother said he would do anything, and was full of thanks. 'Well, here is the flitch', said the rich brother, 'and now go straight to Hell.
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