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While she stood impatiently tapping at the brass knocker, the stage-driver landed a large trunk, and dragged it toward the door across the grass. Just then a busy-looking middle-aged woman made her appearance, with floury hands and a look as if she were prepared to be somewhat on the defensive. "Why, how do you do, Mis' Beckett?" exclaimed the guest. "Well, here I be at last.
And then I knew that I had found Black Bartlemy's Treasure!" "Ha!" quoth I. "And is it indeed so great?" "Beyond description!" says she, clasping her floury hands and turning on me with shining eyes. "I have held in my hands, jewels O by the handful! Great pearls and diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires beyond price!" "Aye!" I nodded, "But was this all?" "All, Martin?" says she, staring.
"Feel as if I could sometimes," continued Tom; then his eye fell upon the dimples in Polly's elbows, and he added, with a laugh, "That 's more in your line, ma'am; can't you give us a sermon?" "A short one. Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake," began Polly, impressively folding her floury hands. "In some the plums are all on the top, and we eat them gayly, till we suddenly find they are gone.
Blanche Devine waved back. Thus encouraged, Snooky's two hands wigwagged frantically above the pickets. Blanche Devine hesitated a moment, her floury hand on her hip. Then she went to the pantry shelf and took out a clean white saucer.
He stood leaning against the casing, watching her floury hands at their deft work. "He come here, not ten minutes ago," said Charlotte, "after your Uncle John. He had a gun. I never see Isr'el Tenney with a gun. 'Pa'tridge shootin, he said. Pa'tridges, when you can't see your hand afore you in the woods! I told him Uncle John'd gone up to the hut.
"Look, Isabel, what a quantity of books. There is something strange about them, though; I do not believe they are real." She put out her hand and pulled at the back of one of the volumes of "Elegant Extracts." The door swung open, and from behind it came a noise of rattling, bumping and clattering. Something soft and heavy thumped on to the floor, and a cloud of floury dust arose.
Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. With this fecula was mingled a mucilaginous juice of disagreeable flavor, but which it would be easy to get rid of by pressure.
No doubt she was charming, as a girl should be, but whether she encouraged the youthful baker and then betrayed him with false rôle, or whether she "consisted" throughout, as our cousins across the water express it, is known to their manes only. Enough that she would not have the floury lad; and that he, after giving in his books and money, sought an untimely grave among the trout.
Not while I could sit in my warm house and read and sew in my comfortable rocking chair. It was without a single qualm that I waved him a floury adieu from the midst of cookie-making. I closed the door and went back to my baking, which was abruptly terminated by a blazing board falling into the crock of dough. The house was burning over my luckless head.
"The fact is, Miss Judy, all of us old fellows think a lot of you and we are kind of 'lowing you'd dance with us and make it lively for us. We'll take it as a special favor if you stretch a point and come you and your mother." Judith glowed with appreciation and put a floury hand on the old man's arm. "Oh, Judge Middleton, you are good all of you are so kind to me.
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