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And the more he looked, the more he felt disposed to look. As they got on there was more night fog, and the little lamp at top shone through a halo. The fellow-passenger at the opposite angle lay back, all cloaks and mufflers, with nothing distinct emerging but the felt hat at top, and the tip it was only the tip now of the shining shoe on the floor.
But the Lord's hand will be against their tires and crisping-pins, their mufflers and farthingales, as it was against the Jews of old. Ah, dear me!"
Neither the children nor the peasant we met were troubled; why was I so troubled? Looking at the smiling peasant, at the boy with the huge mufflers, at the huts, remembering my wife, I realized there was no calamity that could daunt this people; I felt as though there were already a breath of victory in the air.
The king would keep me, he would indeed, sirs; um um why, Katherine dame thy stiff gorget makes me ashamed of thee. Thou wouldst not think, Lord Hastings, that Katherine had a white skin, a parlous white skin. La, you now, fie on these mufflers!" The courtiers sneered; Hastings, with a look of malignant and pitiless triumph, eyed the Lady of Bonville.
Little wind was abroad, but that little pierced through mufflers and overcoats, like a swarm of invisible needles, sharp and stinging. It was rather late in the evening, and in such weather few persons were tempted abroad.
'Bother! repeated Mr Pecksniff, in a tone of anguish. 'Oh! 'tis too late, Pa, said his daughter, calmly 'to talk to me like this. I know what it means, and what its value is. 'This is hard! cried Mr Pecksniff, addressing his breakfast-cup. 'This is very hard! She is my child. I carried her in my arms when she wore shapeless worsted shoes I might say, mufflers many years ago!
'When it rose, and the bright light I almost fear to strike myself against in walking, came into the room, I turned the little tree towards it, and blessed Heaven for making things so precious, and blessed you for sending them to cheer me! 'Bedlam broke loose! said Tackleton under his breath. 'We shall arrive at the strait-waistcoat and mufflers soon. We're getting on!
"Well, you can't all fight him," remarked Jackson, when the babel had died away. "It's for the chairman to choose." "Perhaps your Royal Highness has a preference," said my uncle. "By Jove, I'd take him on myself if my position was different," said the Prince, whose face was growing redder and his eyes more glazed. "You've seen me with the mufflers, Jackson! You know my form!"
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, and nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.
They were dressed in the height of larrikin fashion tight-fitting suits of dark cloth, soft black felt hats, and soft white shirts with new black mufflers round their necks in place of collars for the larrikin taste in dress runs to a surprising neatness.
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