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He used to say he could "do nothin' at exhortin' without a white handkercher on his neck and money in his pocket," a fact going far to confirm the opinions of the Bishop of Exeter and the Puseyites generally, that there can be no priest without tithes and surplice.
Purty as them china figures you might buy off Cheap Jack, an' just so tender. She'd come up to dinky gals no bigger 'n herself an' pull out her li'l handkercher an' ax 'em to be so kind as to blaw her nose for her! Now Will's gone, Lard knaws wheer she'll drift to." "To John Grimbal. Any man could see that. Her father's set on it."
"Someone had giv' me a scrap of red leather, an' I'd made her a pair of boots out of it," said Andrew; "they didn't cost me nothin' but the work so I put 'em on, an tied on her little bonnet an' her handkercher, an' we went off. Mollie was frighted at first to see the 'orses go round so fast, an' the people on their backs cuttin' all manner of capers, just as if they wur on dry ground.
"What did you say your grandfather did?" asked the piccolo. "He played the clarinet." "You said he blew his 'dog's-nose." "Don't be a ass, Fred!" said the banjo, aggrieved. "How the blazes could a man blow his dog's nose, unless he muzzled it with a handkercher, and then twisted its tail?
Rubbin his hot face with a red handkercher, he said, "Is the strange bein a American?" "He is." "A Gen'ral?" "No." "A Colonial?" "No." "A Majer?" "Not a Majer." "A Capting?" "He is not." "A leftenant?" "Not even that." "Then," said the lan'lord of the Green Lion, "you ar deceeved! He is no countryman of yours." "Why not?" I said. "I will tell you, Sir," said the lan'lord.
He took it, and three yards of yon pink ribbon wi' t' black and yellow crosses on it, as Philip could never abide. Philip has got 'em i' t' book, if he'll only look. 'Is he here again? said Philip; 'I didn't see him. What brings him here, where he's noan wanted? 'T' shop were throng wi' folk, said Hester, 'and he knew his own mind about the handkercher, and didn't tarry long.
At noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased with her cutting away a lace handkercher sewed about the neck down to her breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the fashion. Here we did give one another the lie too much, but were presently friends, and then I to my office, where very late and did much business, and then home, and there find Mr.
This was the terrible fear which the neighbours whispered to each other, as they met together after the night's search. But no one mentioned it to Poppy's mother. 'I wouldn't tell her about that there handkercher, poor thing, said one to another 'maybe they're not in the river after all.
To put on that again was impossible. "Never mind," said Lionel good-naturedly. "It was my own fault; I should have held it better." "Put your handkercher over your head, sir," was the woman's advice. "It'll keep the sun off." Lionel smiled, but did not take it. Davies was claiming his attention; while some of the women seemed inclined to go in for a fight, which should secure the hat. "Could Mr.
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