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In between the moor an' the sea there was the beach it looked like a blessed boundary road between two countries, an' it led away to where you couldn't see nothing more except a little white town, sort of built 'igh upon a mist, more like a star.... Oh Gawd!... "Anyway, Cuffbut, thet was me charnce, an' thet's 'ow I come to know 'ow my debt was goin' to be paid. Sherrie understood all thet.
A recent number of the Adelaide Punch has a caricature entitled ''Igh Art in Adelaide, which though of course a caricature, is worth quoting as showing how the wind blows: 'Tallowfat, pointing to a picture in a dealer's shop, loq.: "What's the price of that there thing with the trees and the 'ut in the distance?" Tallowfat: "Twenty tomfools!" "What d'ye take me for?
I come quiet, didn't I? All the same for that, we 'adn't ought to take up your time this way, sir; but if it so 'appened you could find time to step round to the Company orfice in the morning and tell Mr Timms what you seen for yourself, we should lay under a very 'igh obligation to you for the trouble.
"And so the Tower o' London ain't a tower?" he inquired at last. "No," I answered; "it is composed of several towers surrounded by very strong, battlemented walls." "Ah to be sure," said he, "ah, to be sure! And me 'ave allus thought on it like it was a great big tower standin' in the midst o' the city, as 'igh as a mountain. Humph not a tower ha! disapp'inted I be. Humph! Good night, master.
You look quite respectable enough with your 'igh 'at. That's what I like about you; you always look respectable." "But but he will set me down right beside the people." "Well, what if he does, gooseberry? Can't you just pay him quietly? They'll think you're for next door." "But but it may be a big house by itself somewhere." "Well, silly. They'll think it's a mistake, that's all.
"Yes, I know I'm not very big," said the boy, nervously fidgeting with his bundle; "leastways not in hite; but my arms is that long, they'll reach ever so 'igh above my 'ed, and as for bein' strong, you should jest see me lift my father's big market basket when it's loaded with 'taters, or wotever is for market, and I hope you'll not be angry because I come to-day; but Dick that's my brutther Dick he says, 'You foller my advice, Joe, he says, 'and go arter this 'ere place, and don't let no grass grow under your feet.
"Which, having been detained, we might make an 'igh tea of it," she suggested, "and venture on the wing of a goose. Stuffing at this hour I would 'ardly 'int at, being onion and apt to recur." But Captain Hocken desired no more than tea and toast. Mrs Bowldler was intelligently sympathetic, because Fancy had called early in the afternoon and brought some enlightenment.
His connection with what he termed "'igh life" had softened him down considerably, and given a certain degree of polish to his wit, but it had in no degree repressed his exuberant spirits. The distance he had to go being considerable, he travelled the latter part of the way by omnibus.
De l'Isle, same year he made those great openwork gate' of Hotel St. Louis. You speak of episode'! One summer, renovating that hotel, they paint' those gate' of iron openwork in imitation mon Dieu! of marbl'! Ciel! the tragedy of that! Yes, they live over me; in the whole square, both side' the street, last remaining of the 'igh society." When Mme.
So in my spare time I goes to the National to think it out, and in studying the pictures there I got wery interested in a chap called Hetty, and 'e do paint the female form divine. I says to myself, Why not go in for lovely woman? the public may not care for fancy landscapes, but the public allus likes a lovely woman, and, as well as being popular, lovely woman is 'igh 'art.
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