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But I liked her too. I don't know why, but I did. She could make the best marmalade I ever tasted in my born days." "I could make the best marmalade you ever tasted in your born days," said Audrey, sinking neatly to the floor and crossing her legs, "but they won't let me." "Won't let you! But I thought you did all sorts of things in the house." "No, Winnie. I only do one thing.
He stepped to the door, turned, looking into the prisoner's glaring eyes; he doubled up again. "We are quits; I forgive you the broken arm; this laugh will repay me. How Madame the countess will laugh! And Duckwitz the General will die of apoplexy! O, but you are a sorry ass; and how neatly we have clipped your ears!"
Waste is always a pitiful and disagreeable thing, and the waste of whatever reserved power may lie at present unused in the breasts of half a million of old maids, for instance, is a thought which, with so much to be done around us, it is somewhat uncomfortable to dwell much upon. The argument, too, might be neatly enforced, just at present, by illustrations from a somewhat unexpected quarter.
Now people wore shoes and the floor, instead of being muddy, or dusty, with pools and puddles of water in the time of rainy weather and with the pigs and chickens running in and out, was of clay, beaten down flat and hard, and neatly whitewashed at the edges. Outside, in front, were laid nice flat flagstones, that made a pleasant path to the front door.
As Hill neatly puts it, "Monasticism was healthy, active and vigorous; it became idle, listless and extravagant; it engendered its own corruption, and out of that corruption came death."
Maurice pointed with an eager finger to a woman who, neatly dressed from head to foot in black, was walking in front of them. "'Tis 'tis Aunt Lydia Purcell 'tis wicked Aunt Lydia Purcell," said Maurice. Cecile felt her very heart standing still; her breath seemed to leave her her face felt cold.
So the sign was put up: "John Adrian, tailor, from England all orders promptly and neatly executed." Then John took out his shears and "goose," crossed his legs and seated himself with a jacket to make, in front of the window, where pedestrians could see that he was at his post, ready for orders. Julien and Victor, the rosy little Englishmen, didn't fancy much the small room they lived in.
The sight is something goodly, as well to the man of the world as to the man of God, to behold the fairly-decked array of people, drawn from a circuit of some ten or even fifteen miles in extent, on the sabbath, neatly dressed in their choicest apparel, men and women alike well mounted, and forming numerous processions and parties, from three to five or ten in each, bending from every direction to a given point, and assembling for the purposes of devotion.
Soon after we set out we opened one of these boxes to get out some money and have it ready, but found in it so many and various kinds of coins, all the same size, that we opened all the boxes, making quite a mound on the ground, to sort out the German East Africa, English East Africa, Zanzibar, and other useless coins, and then packed them neatly up, an awfully troublesome and dirty job.
The two men walked along in the streaming crowd. Ferris felt instinctively that the officer was holding something back. "What do the reporters say?" hesitating remarked Ferris. "All in the dark a pack of fools unless it's a crime that gives itself away to any one. They know nothing, and the force has not picked up a pointer. Strange, strange, that the job was so neatly done!"
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