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Teidelmann may have clouded for a moment Barbara's sunny nature, surely there was no reason for this, seeing that no one attracted greater attention throughout the dinner than the parlour-maid. "Where ever did you get her from?" asked Mrs. Florret, Barbara having just descended the kitchen stairs. "A neat-handed Phillis," commented Dr. Florret with approval.

"He's in the stable; and looking right well." With a huge sigh of relief I flung myself out of the saddle. "That'll do," I said, "Mrs. Symonds; I don't want to hear another word, unless it relates to ham and eggs." Truly, I fear that the neat-handed Phillis must have been aweary that night before she had satisfied Gargantua.

Here, in the years gone by, did Private Ortheris establish his depot and menagerie for such possessions, dead and living, as could not safely be introduced to the barrack-room. Here were gathered Houdin pullets, and fox-terriers of undoubted pedigree and more than doubtful ownership, for Ortheris was an inveterate poacher and pre-eminent among a regiment of neat-handed dog-stealers.

But there is cream, you see, for those who like it boiled down and bottled for the use of the children before leaving home one of Dominica's notions;" and here the smiling maid, with her little, respectful courtesy, tendered me a reviving cup of Miss Lamarque's morning beverage, Mocha, made to the last point of perfection, dripped and filtered over a spirit-lamp by Dominica, the skillful and neat-handed.

Fanny, thanking him, took it into the house, and as she was very neat-handed with her pen, she soon managed to write out the epitaph she proposed. With this they returned to the tiny grave, and set it up at one end. "We have one thing more to do though," she said, "come and help me to pick some wild-flowers the smallest we can find."

Bulstrode, "we have a capital house-surgeon and dispenser, a clear-headed, neat-handed fellow; we'll get Webbe from Crabsley, as good a country practitioner as any of them, to come over twice a-week, and in case of any exceptional operation, Protheroe will come from Brassing. I must work the harder, that's all, and I have given up my post at the Infirmary.

This was partly because from long familiarity with the river he knew all the likeliest casts; partly because he was sure to have at the end of his casting-line just the proper fly for the size of water and condition of weather; and partly because of his quiet neat-handed manner of dropping his line on the water.

Then she went to array herself in her best clothes, as we have seen; then she came to wait upon Lady Ann, not a little flurried as to the result of that queer interview; then she whisked out of the drawing-room, as before has been shown; and, finding the chicken roasted to a turn, the napkin and tray ready spread by Hannah the neat-handed, she was bringing them up to the little patient when the frantic parent met her on the stair.

"And mind, if the man is rude and you dislike him mind, you must not subject yourself to insolence and mortification." "Oh, all will go well, don't fear," said Philip, cheerfully, and he left the house. Towards evening he had reached his destination. Plaskwith." Philip applied at the private entrance, and was shown by a "neat-handed Phillis" into a small office-room.

When he reckoned it up properly, it was not at all so unreasonable, even if the lock did sometimes get out of order; and then well, then one had to be both strong and neat-handed to get it open again. No, it was right enough. You only see that when you get inside, and so there must be police and masters and order in everything, so that it can lock.