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On the plantation, the doctor was not nearly as popular as the "granny" or midwife, who brewed medicines for every ailment. Each plantation had its own "granny" who also served the mistress during confinement. Some of her remedies follows: For colds: Horehound tea, pinetop tea, lightwood drippings on sugar. For fever: A tea made of pomegranate seeds and crushed mint.
Cornelia shivered as she sat down on the edge of this divan, and Charmian ran back to put another stick of lightwood on the fire, and turn the gas down to a blue flame. She pulled down rugs and draperies, and dragged them toward the alcove for covering. "Oh, how different it is from the way I always supposed it would be when I expected to sleep here!"
And it was William's plan that the service should be held in the evening out-of-doors under the great pines. Torches of lightwood furnished the illumination. William stood beside a small table facing the congregation, who were seated on the benches that had been brought out of the church.
Then, cleansing her hands daintily, she dried them, and picked up her sewing. For her, night was the danger time; she could not avoid, by flight across the river, the approach of any enemy from the south; and for an enemy to discover her sitting there in darkness, with lightwood in the house, was to invite suspicion. Yet her only hope, if surprised, was to play her part as keeper of Red Ferry.
"Bound to be; she never was cotched behind time, not while I stuffed her with coal and lightwood knots. She was plum punctchul." "Was the lamp lighted where you tied your bundle?" "Yes'ir, burnin' bright." "Tell the Court the appearance of the man whom you talked with." Mr.
As to Mrs Boffin, said Mr Boffin lowering his voice, 'she mightn't wish it mentioned now she's Fashionable, but she went so far as to tell him, in my presence, he was a flinty-hearted rascal. Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit Mrs Boffin's ancestors bowmen Agincourt and Cressy.
Several water-side characters were drinking beer at the lead-covered counter, waited upon by a sharp young woman, who seems to have replaced Bob Gliddery. Instead of the little room called "Cozy," where the Police Inspector drank burned sherry with Lightwood and Wrayburn, there was an apartment labelled "The Club." If The Jolly Fellowship Porters is still extant, this must be it.
For the apprehension and conviction of the murderer, we offer a reward of one tithe of the property a reward of Ten Thousand Pound. 'Mr Boffin, it's too much. 'Mr Lightwood, me and Mrs Boffin have fixed the sum together, and we stand to it.
I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels. 'I am quite as bad, said Lightwood, sitting up facing him, with a tumbled head; after going through some wonderful evolutions, in which his head had been the lowest part of him. 'This restlessness began with me, long ago.
One afternoon when he had been lying still, and Lizzie, unrecognized, had just stolen out of the room to pursue her occupation, he uttered Lightwood's name. 'My dear Eugene, I am here. 'How long is this to last, Mortimer? Lightwood shook his head. 'Still, Eugene, you are no worse than you were. 'But I know there's no hope.
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