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If Liza had been 'in form' she would have gone straight away and given the whole lot of them a sample of her strength; but she was only rather bored and vexed that they should disturb her quietness, so she let them talk. They saw she was not to be drawn, and leaving her, set to their game.
Passers-by had joined in, and a number of other people in the street, seeing the crowd, added themselves to it to see what was going on. Liza saw that all eyes were fixed on her, the men amused and excited, the women unsympathetic, rather virtuously indignant. Liza wanted to ask for help, but there were so many people, and they all seemed so much against her, that she had not the courage to.
'You're bloomin' Solomons, you two, ain't you? Learoyd went calmly on, with a steady eye like an ox chewing the cud. 'And that was how I come to know 'Liza Roantree. There's some tunes as she used to sing aw, she were always singin' that fetches Greenhow Hill before my eyes as fair as yon brow across there.
LÍZA. What are you saying! Why, I really thought you were coming to the master as a joke. NÁDYA. As a joke! I can't bear an insult!
To the second belong any of the darker shade, and all common laborers of whatever color, these receiving their wages in Panamanian silver. 'T is a deep and sharp-drawn line. The story runs that Liza Lawsome, not long arrived from Jamaica, entering the office of a Zone dentist, paused suddenly before the announcement: Crownwork. Gold and Silver Fillings. Extractions wholly without Pain.
I haven't been in bed to stay for over six nights, and I'm getting tired of it all." The answer told the real spirit of the average British woman, a spirit that was doing much to win the war. "Liza," replied the first speaker's companion, in a somewhat indignant voice, "Bill's over there, ain't 'e? 'E's tryin' to stop that blighter from treatin' us like 'e did the women of Belgium and France.
The four yellow cats stirred; they yawned, and stretched luxuriously; then, suddenly fully awake to the meaning of those savory scents which had disturbed their slumbers, sat upright with eager jewel eyes upon the tray. "Take the cats away, 'Liza," said Miss Camilla.
And together they slid down into the darkness of the passage. Mrs. Kemp was in the habit of slumbering somewhat heavily on Sunday mornings, or Liza would not have been allowed to go on sleeping as she did. When she woke, she rubbed her eyes to gather her senses together and gradually she remembered having gone to the theatre on the previous evening; then suddenly everything came back to her.
The previous night, on coming home after the day's work and bidding her 'Good evenin', she had turned her back on him without answering. 'Can't you answer when you're spoke to? he had said. 'Good evenin', she had replied sulkily, with her back still turned. After that Liza noticed that Polly avoided her. 'Wot's up, Polly? she said to her one day.
Well, then, no matter how hard married life may be, perhaps there may be lots of work, in spite of that you live as if in paradise; just as if you were proud of something. LÍZA. Naturally, my girl.
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