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Both lines sail from Liverpool on alternate Saturdays, and make Funchal, with their normal unpunctuality, between Fridays and Sundays. This is dreary slow compared with the four days' fast running of the 'Union S. S. C. and the comfortable 'Castle Line, alias the Cape steamers. The B. and A. s.s.
Besides, her days were full days, consequent upon Nina's goading and indefatigable activity; and Eileen danced and received, and she bridged and lunched, and she heard opera Wednesdays and was good to the poor on Fridays; and there were balls, and theatres, and classes for intellectual improvement, and routine duties incident to obligations born with those inhabitants of Manhattan who are numbered among the thousand caryatides that support upon their jewelled necks and naked shoulders the social structure of the metropolis.
Buckle received most kindly all suggestions made to him of books to be read upon American affairs, and people to be seen in the United States. February 7th. To-day we made a party to drive to see the Howling Dervishes, who howl on Fridays.
A turn to the right and a long descent under dark archways and through dirty, shadowy alleys brings us to the Place of Lamentations, beside the ancient foundation wall of the Temple, where the Jews come in the afternoon of Fridays and festival-days to lean their heads against the huge stones and murmur forth their wailings over the downfall of Jerusalem.
Queenhithe lies to the westward of the Three Cranes, and is a harbour for barges, lighters, and other vessels, that bring meal, malt, and other provisions down the Thames; being a square inlet, with wharves on three sides of it, where the greatest market in England for meal, malt, &c., is held every day in the week, but chiefly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun.
Besides giving the men the usual and proper training while in port preparing to sail, he made several arrangements whereby he continued the training most effectively on the voyage out. Of course it was carried on daily. On Tuesdays and Fridays the ships were cleared for action, and six broadsides were fired, but this was only what may be styled parade practice.
"How often do you get the mail?" asked Jim of the storekeeper, who was also postmaster. "Three times a week by steamer from Rockland Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays." As Spurling had decided to bring his fish over every Friday, they would thus be enabled to keep in fairly close touch with the outside world. Percy, however, was somewhat disgusted.
This was a human skull, which had probably belonged of yore to one of those jovial friars, so honorably mentioned in the old border ballad: "O the monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted; They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors lasted."
'Oh no, sir! It's Miss Wallas's dancing-class breaking up that's all. 'Breaking up? echoed the colonel, whose mind was sometimes a trifle slow in the uptake. 'She rents the room alternate Fridays, sir, and usually gives 'em a little treat just before Christmas. I don't know, pursued the waiter, meditatively laying two fingers wide on his chin, 'as many people would call it a treat.
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