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'I see, said Twemlow, and thought primly that in his day such laxities were not permitted. Hannah and the servant cleared the tea-table, and the two men were left alone, each silently reducing an J.S. Murias to ashes. Meshach seemed to grow smaller in his padded chair by the hob, to become torpid, and to lose that keen sense of his own astuteness which alone gave zest to his life.
"He has some of Hob's grand, whunstane sense, and the same way with him of steiking his mouth when he's no very pleased." And Hob, all unconscious, would draw down his upper lip and produce, as if for comparison, the formidable grimace referred to. The unsatisfactory incumbent of St. Enoch's Kirk was thus briefly dismissed: "If he had but twa fingers o' Gib's, he would waken them up."
I have fear of this man. I do not wish to see him, I do not wish to be known of him never again! Enough, most beautiful. Leave it. The topic was so disagreeable to him, and so put his usual liveliness to the rout, that Mrs Plornish forbore to press him further: the rather as the tea had been drawing for some time on the hob.
The holidays at Carter Hill were all but ended "all but ended," Miss Sandys repeated with a little sigh of relief, and an inclination to moralize on that weariness which is the result of pleasure. When Miss West came down in the morning the kettle was steaming on the hob, the teapot under its cosie, and the couple of rolls and the dish of sausages were set in their places.
Leonard, with his head on high, marched out of the hall, not uttering a word, but shaking his shoulder as if to get rid of the squire's grasp, but only thereby causing himself to be gripped the faster. Next, Lord Salisbury's severity fell upon Hob the carter and Hodge the smith, for leaving such perilous wares unwatched in the court- yard.
'Thou art the boy who lives with the shepherd at Derwentside, on Bunce's ground? 'Ay, Hob Hogward's herd boy, said Hal. 'Oh, sir, are you the holy hermit of the Derwent vale? 'A hermit for the nonce I am, was the answer, with something of a smile responsive to the eager face. 'Oh, sir, if you be not too holy to look at me or speak to me!
"Now, can you yourself remember all the bodies your soul has passed through? but before I expect you to answer me, hob or nob again, this is famous water, my dear philosopher." "It is famous water, Father Mulrenin; and the parson's consecration has given it a power of exhilaration which is astonishing." The doctor had thrown another glass of usquebaugh into his cup, of course unobserved.
I had already locked and bolted it. Then she locked the scullery door on the outside, abstracted the key, and I heard her step on the brick path, and the click of the gate. She was gone. I always heated the coffee myself over the parlour fire. It was already bubbling on the hob. Directly she had left I went to the kitchen, and got a second cup. I felt much better since I had had supper.
"He was pretty well broke wid me, I know," replied Denis, "and I'm afear'd you've given him into the hands of some one that knows little about horses. Mave," he shouted, passing the kitchen door, "here's Father Finnerty go in, Docthor, and put big Brian Buie out o' the corner; for goodness sake Exltimnicate him from the hob an' sure you have power to do that any way."
Then I drank a great draught of the strong red wine, and passed it on; and every man said something over it, as "The road to London Bridge!" "Hob Carter and his mate!" and so on, till last of all John Ball drank, saying: "Ten years hence, and the freedom of the Fellowship!"
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