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"Did you ever see such a dreadful sight?" sobbed Margaret. Billy climbed on the fence, took one long look and turned an astounded face to Wesley. "Why them pigs is drunk!" he cried. "They act just like my pa!" Wesley turned to Margaret. "Where did you put the leavings from that grape juice?" he demanded. "I sent Billy to throw it in the woods." "Billy " began Wesley.
"He is a young man who takes life seriously." "Very seriously, uncle. Isn't he about to be married?" "Why, yes; to a rich wife." "To whom?" "My dear boy, he is picking up all your leavings; he is going to marry Mademoiselle Lorinet." "He was always enterprising! But, uncle, it wasn't with him you were engaged yesterday evening?" "Why not, pray?"
"I s'pose you'd have her marry one of these soup-toting college chaps, wouldn't you? Then they could live on Greek for breakfast and Latin for dinner and warm over the leavings for supper. No, sir! a girl hasn't no right to get married unless she gets a man with money. There's a deck-load of millionaires comes here every summer, and I'm goin' to help her land one of 'em.
For two-score years I wandered and starved over you, and the Lady Om ever wandered and starved with me. What we in extremity have eaten! Leavings of dog's flesh, putrid and unsaleable, flung to us by the mocking butchers; minari, a water-cress gathered from stagnant pools of slime; spoiled kimchi that would revolt the stomachs of peasants and that could be smelled a mile.
The King's daughter was now a kitchen-maid, and had to be at the cook's beck and call, and do the dirtiest work. In both her pockets she fastened a little jar, in which she took home her share of the leavings, and upon this they lived. It happened that the wedding of the King's eldest son was to be celebrated, so the poor woman went up and placed herself by the door of the hall to look on.
This Leadbatter creature is honest after her lights she sends me up the most ridiculous leavings and I only hate her the more for it." "I suppose she works Mary Ann's fingers to the bone from the same mistaken sense of duty," said Peter, acutely. "Thanks; think I'll try one of my cigars. I filled my case, I fancy, before I came out. Yes, here it is; won't you try one?"
Now she had made her bed, she must lie in it. Must sit and say "Thank you!" for Aunt Mollie's leavings, precious scraps she dared not refuse Maw, who had a pride as fierce and keen as any! It was devilish! Oh, it was kind of Aunt Mollie to give; it was the taking that came so bitter hard. And then they weren't genteel about their giving.
But I was brought up sharp by the reflection that it were hopeless to look for an actor who could impersonate Russell could fit his manner to Russell's words, or indeed to the words of any of those orotund advocates. To reproduce recent trials would be a hardly warrantable thing. Vain, then, is my dream of theatres invigorated by the leavings of the law-courts.
Well, they were called Coprolites at first because some folk fancied they were the leavings of fossil animals, such as you may really find in the lias at Lynn in Dorsetshire. But how many millions of dead creatures, there must have been! What killed them? We do not know.
Now Strap had rescued Roderick from starvation, had bestowed on him hundreds of pounds, and had carried his baggage, and dined on his leavings. But Strap was not gently born! Smollett would not, probably, have acted thus, but he did not consider such conduct a thing out of nature. On the other side was Smollett's Scottish spirit of independence.
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