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Make you berry comfortable, sar. Great honor for dis village dat you come here. Plenty eberyting for you, fowl, and eggs, and plantain, and sometime a sheep." "We have, indeed, fallen into the lap of luxury," Mr. Goodenough said to Frank; and they followed the negro to his hut. "I suppose the old man has been employed in one of the factories upon the coast."
Goodenough. It was no concern of hers whether he looked decent or not. What right had such as he to look decent? It was more than enough that she fed him! The shabbiness of the beggarly creature was a consolation to her. But Clare's toil in the open air, and his constant and willing association with the animals, had begun to give him a bucolic appearance.
'Nay, said Miss Browning, 'I have heard that there were Hamleys of Hamley before the Romans. The vicar was preparing a polite assent, when Mrs. Goodenough came in with a still more startling assertion. 'I have always heerd, said she, with all the slow authority of an oldest inhabitant, 'that there was Hamleys of Hamley afore the time of the pagans. Mr.
Called up by my Cozen Snow, who sat by me while I was trimmed, and then I drank with him, he desiring a courtesy for a friend, which I have done for him. Then to the office, and there sat long, then to dinner, Captain Murford with me. I had a dish of fish and a good hare, which was sent me the other day by Goodenough the plasterer.
She would borrow from Laura again. "Let us go let us go," she thought; "directly he can bear the journey let us go away. Come, kind Doctor Goodenough come quick, and give us leave to quit England." The good doctor drove over to dine with them that very day.
"How much better is this than going home and seeing those horrid factories and chimneys! I love Dr. Goodenough for sending us here. What a sweet house it is. What nice rooms!" Presently little Miss Honeyman makes her appearance in a large cap bristling with ribbons, with her best chestnut front and her best black silk gown, on which her gold watch shines very splendidly.
Goodenough purchased a large basket of fruit, which they took with them on board the ship. The next morning they started down the coast. They passed Liberia, the republic formed of liberated slaves, and of negroes from America, and brought up a mile or two off Monrovia, its capital. The next day they anchored off Cape Palmas, the headquarters of the Kroomen.
In the boxes were six thousand rounds of ammunition, a thousand for each gun, besides the ammunition for the rifles and fowling pieces of Mr. Goodenough and Frank. In order to render the appearance of his followers as imposing as possible, Mr. Goodenough furnished each of the Houssas with a pair of trousers made of New Zealand flax, reaching to their knees.
'I won't go back to those people, I am so mad with them; and, besides, I hardly saw you the other day, and I must have some gossip with you. So she sat down by Mrs. Gibson, and as Mrs. Goodenough afterwards expressed it, 'looked like anybody else. Mrs. Goodenough said this to excuse herself for a little misadventure she fell into.
Miss Browning afterwards said she never could forgive him for his hard- heartedness on that occasion; but a fortnight afterwards she came to very high words with old Mrs. Goodenough, for gasping out her doubts whether Mr.
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