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"But why tell Cleone?" inquired the Duchess over her shoulder; "there is one alternative left to you." "Then, madam, in heaven's name, tell it me!" cried Barnabas eagerly. "A ridiculously simple one, sir." "Oh, madam what can I do pray tell me." "You must disown this inn-keeping wretch, of course. You must cast him off now, at once, and forever!" "Disown him my father!" "Certainly,"
Bucher thought it had been inconsiderable and that the marriages, contracted generally between German subalterns and girls of the inn-keeping or small farming class, had been rarely happy. The Alsatian strain was the stronger, and the wife's relations despised the German intruder. "Not long before the war I came upon two small boys fighting in a back street."
Nealy's. Scriver, besides being a fisherman, kept a tavern for the accommodation of people of his own class-for his was a rude, uneducated family, exceedingly profane in their language, but, on the whole, an honest, kind and well-disposed people. They owned a large farm, but left it wholly unimproved; attending mainly to their vocations of fishing and inn-keeping.
His accounts of his travel were a mixture of crude sensations in the presence of famous scenes and objects of interest, hard-headed observation of the facts of life, narrow-minded misconception of conditions, and wholly intelligent and adequate study of the art of inn-keeping in city and country. Mrs. Durgin seemed to feel that there was some excuse due for the relative quantity of the last.
His accounts of his travel were a mixture of crude sensations in the presence of famous scenes and objects of interest, hard-headed observation of the facts of life, narrow-minded misconception of conditions, and wholly intelligent and adequate study of the art of inn-keeping in city and country. Mrs. Durgin seemed to feel that there was some excuse due for the relative quantity of the last.
Ann Nelson was "one of those stern, dignified, magisterial women of business, who were quite a remarkable feature of the coaching age, who saw their husbands off to an early grave and alone carried on the peculiarly exacting double business of inn-keeping and coach-proprietorship, and did so with success." She was the "Napoleon and Caesar" combined of the coaching business.
He was a tall, athletic fellow, dressed in brown coat, round buff hat, corduroy trousers, linen leggings and highlows, and, though a Cumro, had much more the appearance of a native of Tipperary than a Welshman. He was a kind of shepherd to the people of the house, who, like many others in South Wales, followed farming and inn-keeping at the same time.
As soon as he was installed in office, he would ask permission to return to Mantua, that he might arrange his affairs. Of course this request could not be refused. He was going to leave most of his effects here. When he returned, it would only depend upon his beloved and charming friend whether she would give up inn-keeping and accompany him to Venice as his wife.
It was not known whether it was necessary for her to continue the inn-keeping business, but the general belief was that it was not necessary. It was supposed that she had had money when she married Godfrey Chester, and he was not a poor man. Then came a strange revelation, which Mr. Larramie dwelt upon with considerable earnestness. There was an idea, he said, that Mrs.
"I do not farm," said the man in grey, "I keep an inn." "Keep an inn?" said I. "Yes," said the man in grey. "The Arms at L-." "Sure," said I, "inn-keeping and bardism are not very cognate pursuits?" "You are wrong," said the man in grey; "I believe the awen, or inspiration, is quite as much at home in the bar as in the barn, perhaps more.
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