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However, she did give him house-room, and, though grumbling, had provided him with many comforts and good fare, such as he was sure could not be purchased out of the very small sum he could give her by the week. 'And how provided? he said. 'Ah! Nan, can you forgive me? I have had to pledge the last pearl of the chaplet, but I knew that Meg would redeem it.
"Egad!" the subscribers to the Aurora would say "old W has waked up at last. His paper is now full of tip-top reading, whereas it was formerly not worth house-room!" How many instances of this kind have I seen of writers toiling with their pens and brains for the benefit and credit of ungrateful wretches without intellect, or soul, or honor, or common humanity!
She dreamed often of a little child starving and cold out in the Domain, while the southerly winds lashed rain at him dreams of a little boy with Louis's brown eyes a little boy who gnawed his nails and stammered and grew old and wavered and shook in drink delirium. She refused the dreams house-room in her conscious thoughts.
If you can be satisfied with house-room, shelter, and safety, it will be your own fault if you have them not, and they are not always to be found in this unhappy quarter. But, if you seek deferential observance and attendance, I tell you at once you will not find them here."
I was no' free to gi' her house-room in the hottle till her husband daidled in at her heels and answered for her." "I fancy I must have seen her husband," said Lady Lundie. "What sort of a man was he?" Mrs. Inchbare replied in much the same words which she had used in answering the similar question put by Sir Patrick. "Eh! he was ower young for the like o' her.
The register had an expression of slow cunning as he cast a glance up at the overbearing ranger. "What ailed the stray-book ter bide hyar in the court-house all night, Tobe? Couldn't ye gin it house-room? Thar warn't no special need fur it to be hyar." Tobe Gryce's face showed that for once he was at a loss. He glowered down at the register and said nothing.
'He's not so much a stranger, that you haven't seen him once, Caleb, said the Carrier. 'You'll give him house-room till we go? 'Oh surely, John, and take it as an honour. 'He's the best company on earth, to talk secrets in, said John. 'I have reasonable good lungs, but he tries 'em, I can tell you. Sit down, sir. All friends here, and glad to see you!
After that he begged for house-room for himself and the goods he had saved. 'Heaven mend me! said the old wife, 'how can I lend any one house- room? look at me and mine, why, I've no bed to sleep on myself, still less one for any one else to lie on. Well, well, it was all the same, said the sailor; if he only got a roof over his head, it didn't matter where he lay.
After much inquiry I determined to visit the district of Maros, about thirty miles north of Macassar, where Mr. Jacob Mesman, a brother of my friend, resided, who had kindly offered to find me house-room and give me assistance should I feel inclined to visit him. I accordingly obtained a pass from the Resident, and having hired a boat set off one evening for Maros.
"Do you think I would stay here and work from morning to night if I hadn't some reason for it? Oh, I like work!" she went on; "I don't deny that. I should be miserable if I didn't work. But I'm not bound to this sort of work. I have money of my own, and I'm no beggar for house-room. But rather than leave your uncle, poor man! I would do the work of a ploughman for him."
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