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Perhaps you 'll be able to shoot a drake to-morrow, and then we 'll cook them both together." So they had pork and beans, to the great disappointment of Mr. Jimson, who had expected to eat duck instead; and after dinner the little man lay down to take a nap while his wife went out to tell the neighbors what a great hunter he was.
"And now to work," said he, when he had satisfied his appetite. "We must leave traces of the wretched man's activity." And he wrote in bold characters: ORANGE PEKOE. Op. 17. J. B. JIMSON. Vocal and p. f. score. "I suppose they never do begin like this," reflected Gideon; "but then it's quite out of the question for me to tackle a full score, and Jimson was so unconventional.
He must come now, she must force him from his privacy, for the plank was too heavy for her single strength; so she tapped upon the open door. Then she tapped again. "Mr. Jimson," she cried, "Mr. Jimson! here, come! you must come, you know, sooner or later, for I can't get off without you. O, don't be so exceedingly silly! O, please, come!" Still there was no reply.
He formerly had been prosperous, but now he was down financially; yet society still received and liked him, for he had many good points and was fundamentally what the world calls a good fellow. "Why not send for Jocular Jimson Jones?" suggested the head and leading spirit of the Improvement Company.
When he beholds dawdling inanity and dowdy vanity growing lush as jimson, where yesterday, with strained prophetic vision, he saw budding excellence and worth, his soul is wrung by a worry that knows no peace. The matter is so poignantly personal that he dare not share it with another in confessional, and so he hugs his grief to his heart, and tries to hide it even from himself.
"The Ostranders have one, and Jimson, the artist. But the native city, or whatever you call it, is adorable. It has that air of rewarded virtue which makes one ashamed of one's life " "I wish" Millicent still spoke remotely, as if out of a sleep "I wish, Mr. Brockton, that we might find a little library and museum they have here." "Why, of course!"
'And now to work, said he, when he had satisfied his appetite. 'We must leave traces of the wretched man's activity. And he wrote in bold characters: ORANGE PEKOE. Op. 17. J. B. JIMSON. Vocal and p. f. score. 'I suppose they never do begin like this, reflected Gideon; 'but then it's quite out of the question for me to tackle a full score, and Jimson was so unconventional.
They were his own class modest folk, who sought for a coloured background to their prosaic city lives and found it in this odd settlement. At supper I was initiated into the peculiar merits of Biggleswick. 'It is one great laboratory of thought, said Mrs Jimson.
"Look here!" cried the Harvester. "I came with an arm load of herbs and expected to tell you all about foxglove, mullein, yarrow, jimson, purple thorn apple, blessed thistle, hemlock, hoarhound, lobelia, and everything in season now; but if you already have a profession, why do you attempt a new one? Why don't you go on drawing?
There's a fish which is called the fighting-fish, that is regularly trained by the fishermen, and the combats are so famous that when one is scheduled to come off a big crowd gathers." "Where?" asked Colin incredulously. "That sounds a little as if you thought I was one of the marines, Dr. Jimson." "It is absolutely the case," was the reply.
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