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This was something of a floorer; I felt myself grow red-hot. Mr. Trelawny's eyes were upon me; they were now calm and inquiring, but never ceasing in their soul-searching scrutiny. There was just a suspicion of a smile on the mouth which, though it added to my embarrassment, gave me a certain measure of relief.
"And vot room be that vith the littul vite 'ead h-over the door?" asked Beck, pointing to the chamber from which Madame Dalibard had emerged. "That white head, Master Beck, is Floorer the goddess; but a heathen like you knows nothing about goddesses.
"'You don't seem to like going to church, Miss Lizzie. "Her face flushed. "'Who dares to say so? I am very regular in my attendance. "'Not a doubt of it. But you don't enjoy being there. "'I do. "'Confess, now. You don't like my sermons. "'Do you like them yourself, Mr. Armstrong? "Here was a floorer! Did I like them myself? I really couldn't honestly say I did.
It is worth a stretching of them on the rack to hear that low buzz-hum of their inner breast... By heaven! we have them at their best when they sing that note. His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer. Thinking of that, he was cheered by hearing Chummy Potts, whose opinions he despised, cry out to Abrane:
"And vot room be that vith the littul vite 'ead h-over the door?" asked Beck, pointing to the chamber from which Madame Dalibard had emerged. "That white head, Master Beck, is Floorer the goddess; but a heathen like you knows nothing about goddesses.
Neb's a good sort o' chap if you could straighten his eyes; arn't you Neb?" "Dunno," growled the man. "Then it's a good job for you as I do, mate. Ay, the skipper did give Master Jarette a floorer, and I'm sorry for it." "Why," I said, "if he deserved it?"
Floorer has a half-moon in her hair, you see, which shows that the idolatrous Turks worship her; for the Turkish flag is a half-moon, as I have seen at Constantinople. I have travelled, Beck." "And vot room be it? Is it the master's?" persisted Beck. "No, the pretty young lady, Miss Mainwaring, has it at present. There is nothing to see in it.
It is worth a stretching of them on the rack to hear that low buzz-hum of their inner breast . . . By heaven! we have them at their best when they sing that note. His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer. Thinking of that, he was cheered by hearing Chummy Potts, whose opinions he despised, cry out to Abrane:
Floorer has a half-moon in her hair, you see, which shows that the idolatrous Turks worship her; for the Turkish flag is a half-moon, as I have seen at Constantinople. I have travelled, Beck." "And vot room be it? Is it the master's?" persisted Beck. "No, the pretty young lady, Miss Mainwaring, has it at present. There is nothing to see in it.
Sponge, punctual to his time, appeared at the stable, and after much patting, whistling, so so ing, my man, and general ingratiation, the redoubtable nag was led out of the stable into a well-littered straw-yard, where, though he might be gored by a bull if he fell, the 'eyes of England' at all events would not witness the floorer. Horses, however, have wonderful memories and discrimination.
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