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The tributary streamlet meanders through a succession of pasture meadows, in one of which the beds themselves are situated, and here throughout most of the year the fleecy victims of the human carnivore carry on the industry of converting grass into mutton.
She still kept the dresses she wore in her two favourite parts, the stockings and the shoes, and having nothing to do, no way of passing the time away, she bethought herself of dressing herself in the apparel of her happy days, presenting, when the servant came up with her dinner, a spectacle that almost caused Emma to drop the dish of cold mutton. 'Lord, Mrs.
"Our dear young friend wanted strength; and what we had to do was to give our dear young friend strength vital power. Yes er um, that was the chief point. And what kind of diet might our dear young friend take now? Was it a light diet, a little roast mutton not too much done, but not underdone? O dear, no.
I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out, getting a boy to keep my place; and to the Rose Tavern, and there got half a breast of mutton, off of the spit, and dined all alone. And so to the play again, where the King and Queen, by and by, come, and all the Court; and the house infinitely full.
I am weary of the world; life is weary of me, My day is gone into twilight, and I don't think it worth the expense of candles. My wick hath a thief in it, but I can't muster courage to snuff it. I inhale suffocation; I can't distinguish veal from mutton; nothing interests me.
The speckled trout, fresh from the stream, and the four-year-old mutton modestly disclaiming its own excellent merits, by affecting the shape and assuming the adjuncts of venison.
"As to splendor, as far as it went, I admit it: there was a very fine sideboard of plate; and if a man could have swallowed a silversmith's shop, there was enough to satisfy him; but as to all the rest, the mutton was white, the veal was red, the fish was kept too long, the venison not kept long enough; to sum up all, everything was cold except the ice, and everything sour except the vinegar."
"I don't think this is so good a tub as the last, Tomkins, there's a twang about it a want of juniper; however, I hope, we shall have better luck this time. Of course you know we sail to-morrow?" "I presume so, by the leg of mutton coming on board." "True true; I'm regular as clock-work. After being twenty years a first-lieutenant one gets a little method. I like regularity.
The turkeys, the roast beef and the boiled mutton, the peas and beans and the cabbage, disappeared with astonishing rapidity, which was not to be wondered at, for they were all very hungry from the long drive, and nearly everyone made a point of having at least one helping of everything there was to be had. Some of them went in for two lots of soup.
You look quite ill, the woman asked. 'Oh, 'twas only a sudden pain, Dick said, making an effort to recover himself. 'I've eaten nothing all day have had no time, you know. 'Then we shall have you laid up as well as your wife, and there's the leg of mutton she ordered stewing away all these hours. I'm afraid you won't be able to eat it?
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