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Updated: June 29, 2025
'I see you recollect the room, Mr Clennam? 'I recollect it well, Heaven bless her! Oblivious of the tea, Young John continued to bite his fingers and to look at his visitor, as long as his visitor continued to glance about the room. Finally, he made a start at the teapot, gustily rattled a quantity of tea into it from a canister, and set off for the common kitchen to fill it with hot water.
"Up with you!" Gustily sniffing in the huge sighs that advertised his terror, the red-headed Pinner boy obeyed. George drew down the ladder. "Stop up there; I shall be back in five minutes. If you move before then " He left the trembling boy out of his own agitated fear to fill the unspoken doom.
The door opened gustily and a big fellow with a skinned nose and a whimsical pair of eyes looked in, hesitated while he stared hard at Ford, and then entered and shut the door by the simple method of throwing his shoulders back against it. "Hello, old sport how you comin'?" he cried cheerfully.
"Gad, it sounds like the manoeuvres of one of our Highland clans three hundred years ago!" he said. "Wouldn't it be the irony of fate that Stoddard poor fellow! a friend of the people, a socialist, ready to call every man his brother should be sacrificed in such a way?" The words brought them to Stoddard's little home, silent and deserted now. Down the street, the lamps flared gustily.
Julia will never marry, we know, while she has this precious youth to pet and pamper and cherish " "Instead of us, Jervas!" "Us? George, don't be a fool! She couldn't wed us both, man!" "Why, no!" sighed uncle George. "She'd ha' to be content wi' one of us, to be sure, and that one would be " "Myself, George!" "Aye!" quoth uncle George, sighing more gustily than ever.
She seemed to be always turning round; when she was going straight forward in any direction, say towards a press, she would turn aside midway so sharply that her clothing spun gustily in her wake This probably came from having many children. A mother is continually driving in oblique directions from her household employments to rescue her children from a multitude of perils.
"This one," she said, holding up the pudgiest bundle, "because this is the china cat, and I want Joel to have that." Down went Polly's head on the edge of the box. Jasper dropped the long nails and hurried over to her. "I can't help it." Polly's shoulders were shaking, and she added gustily, "O dear me and Joel does so hate cats!"
Didn't have no pa nor ma.... But he had to be looked after by somebody, didn't he? Somebody had to pay them bills." Scattergood blew his nose gustily. "Mebby he could 'a' been cured if they was money to pay for costly doctorin', but they wa'n't. It took all that could be got jest to pay for his food and keep.... Patient leetle feller, too, and gentlelike and cheerful. Kind of took to him, I did."
Ragged patches of clouds were driven down across the tree-tops; the dark blue of the sky had yet a tinge of moist yellow in it after the night's rains; the wind was wet as it blew now and then gustily in Neckart's face. He jumped across a brush hedge overgrown with smilax and blackberry vines, and passed in under the hemlocks. They were dark and still.
Here and now, you shall swear this oath with me: I by my love for Sally Madeira, you by your love for Piney's young mother, that never, so help us God, shall one or the other of us carry word of these matters to anyone, least of all to Crittenton Madeira or his daughter Salome!" The old man's breath came gustily, his cheeks flamed, the hectic burned like fire in his shrivelled cheeks.
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