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At his feet rises the ghost of Hossack, saying, "You suffered justly, for Wipping me to Death. K. Hossack." At one side stands Mr. William Henry Cranstoun, with a rope round his neck, and crossing his body like a riband of knighthood; in his pocket is "Powder to Clean Pebbels" in his mouth a label, "Jammy will save me."
The entire gang followed scores, over a hundred inwardly expecting to emerge instantly with teeth fully employed, followed like sheep into a fold. And the gate was shut. Toasted cheese and hot jammy pastry were faithfully served to the ragged host but with no breathless haste.
"How hard you are on a fellow, Cousin Milly," grumbled the youngster, rising to do as he was bid; but the expression of his jammy face showed that he was no unwilling slave. "How old are you, Aggy?" asked Milly when he was gone. "Sixteen last birthday," returned the girl.
If it hadn't been for Pamela I should at this moment have been crawling slowly, cheaply, down Riviera-ward in a second-class train, sitting bolt upright in a second-class carriage with smudges on my nose, while perhaps some second-class child shed jammy crumbs on my frock, and its second-class baby sister howled. "Oh, why did I leave my peaceful home?" wailed the lady in the lower berth.
Piper say if she could see Elinor, eyes cloudy with anger, leaning across the tea-wagon and emphasizing her points by waves of a jammy knife as she defends constancy and romance! "They do not! When a girl cares for a man and she knows he cares for her she doesn't care about anything else, she " "That's what Nancy said," remarked Oliver placidly out of his muffin. "And then "
It is they who sap his confidence in himself, because they do not venture to leave him out of their sight, from a nameless dread of what may happen. A little girl cut her finger and ran to her nurse, pleased and interested: "See," she said, seeing it bleed, "fingers all jammy." Only when the nurse grasped her with unwise expressions of horror did she break into cries of fear.
She lifted the child down and struck it. It gave her the most extraordinary pleasure to strike it. She struck it three times, and each time it was as good as drinking wine. Then she fell forward on her knees and covered her face with her hands. The child ceased to howl and put its jammy arms forgivingly about her while she wept, but its touch only reminded her how delicious it had been to beat it.
It is in this spirit of child-like faith in its integrity that, one morning, you gather your family around you in the passage, kiss your children, and afterward wipe your jammy mouth, poke your finger in the baby's eye, promise not to forget to order the coals, wave at last fond adieu with the umbrella, and depart for the railway-station.
Poor Jemmy, or Jammy, with his devotion and tenderness that soothed, and his high spirit that supported the weaker vessel, was as funny to our male as to our female guests so there. I saw but one that understood him, and did not laugh at him" "Talboys, for a pound." "Mr. Talboys? no! You, dear uncle; you did not laugh; I noticed it with all a niece's pride." "Of course I didn't.
She gurgled melodiously to her family in the intervals of dropping bits of jammy bread into her mug of milk, and watching them bob about with absorbed interest. "Good old Mary! She's made potato scones and almond gingerbread." Hugh remarked approvingly. "If you've never tasted real Irish potato scones baked on a girdle, Mollie, you'd better chalk it up, as Bridget says.
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