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See what you have brought yourself to! What would the Yerl your father say? 'I trow that I have been striving to do my devoir to my liege's sisters, answered George. 'How does my father? and my mother? Make your obeisance to the Duke of the Tirol, Rab. Ye can knap the French with him better than I. Now I can go with him as becomes a yerl's son, for the freedom of the lady!
I pressed after her up the ascent, and from the knap of it, with a shock, found myself looking down at close hand upon a small dim bay of the sea with a white edge of foam curving away into a loom of shore above which a solitary light twinkled.
They took the rain-coats from their knap sacks, put them on and felt immediate comfort; then all lay down with their feet toward the fire, Pixy close to Fritz. "I am tired, and could sleep if I were not so thirsty," murmured Paul. "Well, donkey, there is nothing to hinder you from getting a drink," said the rough voice of the butcher-boy.
"Take the knap?" said Maitland, who imagined that "the knap" must be some malady incident to childhood. "Oh, sir, it's when one person cuffs at another on the stage, you know, and the other slaps his own hand, on the far side, to make the noise of a box on the ear: that's what we call 'taking the knap' in the profession. And the beer was spilt, and the jug broken, and all Lizer was that clever?
Then I should think he would give it back to Rhoda. I shant only ask Aunt Olivia for 5 cents I think she will be more likely. I havent desided but I THINK I shall ask her tomorrow after her knap. After knaps you are more rested and maybe things don't look just as they do before knaps. "'FRIDAY. I think Ide better wait untill tomorrow. Her knap was rather short.
The cuckoo's note was at its best, between April tentativeness and midsummer decrepitude, and the reptiles in the sun behaved as winningly as kittens on a hearth. Though afternoon, and about the same time as on the last occasion, it was broad day and sunshine when he entered Hintock, and the details of the Knap dairy-house were visible far up the road.
He drew Slimak into the passage, and Fritz Hamer at once took him to the further room. Miller Knap and old Hamer were sitting at a brightly lighted table behind their beer mugs, blowing clouds of smoke from their pipes. The miller had the appearance of a huge sack of flour as he sat there in his shirtsleeves, holding a full pot of beer in his hand and wiping the perspiration off his forehead.
'No doubt he has, said Sally, with sad emphasis. 'It is not put off for a week, or a month, or a year. I shall never marry him, and she will! Time passed, and the household on the Knap became again serene under the composing influences of daily routine.
KENELM walked into the shop kept by the Somerses, and found Jessie still at the counter. "Give me back my knap sack. Thank you," he said, flinging the knapsack across his shoulders. "Now, do me a favour. A portmanteau of mine ought to be at the station. Send for it, and keep it till I give further directions. I think of going to Oxford for a day or two. Mrs. Somers, one more word with you.
"If I can be of any help " murmured Cai, somewhat astonished but prodigiously flattered. "Hush!" she interrupted, lifting a quick eye towards the knap of the hill they had descended. "Isn't that Captain Hunken, up above? . . . Yes, to be sure it is, and he's turned to walk away just as I was going to call him!" She glanced at Cai, and there was mischief in the glance.
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