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Jane, sharpening pencils and sorting nibs, apparently only caught the drift of what he was saying, for when he had chanted the phrase, "Not alone from selfish motives, my dear Miss Champion; but for the good of my parish; for the welfare of my flock, for the advancement of the work of the church in our midst," Jane opened a despatch-box and drew out her cheque-book.
Lord love a duck! what a soakin' he gev' me in Brighton. Some lah-di-dah toff swaggered into the garage that evenin', and handed Dale a fiver five golden quidlets, if you please which my nibs had won on a horse at Epsom. I must say, though, Dale did the thing handsome quart bottles o' Bass opened every ten minutes. Thank you, my dear" this to the waitress, "next to beer give me tea.
We've got all sorts of secret stories in that cupboard. No, Lawrence that's the poison cupboard. The big cupboard that's right." We had a very cheery tea, and assisted Cynthia to wash up afterwards. We had just put away the last tea-spoon when a knock came at the door. The countenances of Cynthia and Nibs were suddenly petrified into a stern and forbidding expression.
He may chum up with me all he likes, for all his silk socks and shirts." "What did the Head say?" asked little Johnnie Miller. "Said he liked the name Shag," replied Cop. "'Then I'm Shag to you, sir, and the others here, speaks up his Indian nibs. Then he and I struck for the tubs, then they took him to get his room, and I came up here."
If you detect traces of erudition in this article, of which any decent man might be expected to be innocent, I owe it to that boy. He once told me how many nibs his uncle made in a year; luckily I have forgotten. Thousands, probably. Every term that boy came back with a hundred of them; one expected him to be very busy.
It is accomplished by carrying the beans mechanically to the cracking machine at a considerable height, whence husks and nibs are allowed to fall before the winnower: the separated nibs are assorted according to size. Some of the shells find their way to the Emerald Isle, to be used by the peasants for the weak infusion called "miserables."
That will do very well at other times. He expects the naval salute when you first come on board greeny!" I began to feel alarmed, and begged him to explain. "Why, you see, after touching your hat, you should have touched him lightly with your forefinger in his waistcoat, so, and asked, 'How's his nibs? you see?" "How's his nibs?" I repeated. "Exactly.
"By God, old man," he said with a little break in his voice, "you should be the Emperor instead of his nibs out there." "I may be yet," said Edestone smiling, and a look came on his face that Lawrence had never seen there before. The servants were moving quietly about the room, but it was plain to see that they felt the presence of the Lord's Anointed.
"Come now," wanting to draw her from her chair by the two hands, swinging them wide and then together; "don't let his nibs bouncing in that way throw a damper. We were too quick for him, anyway. Don't believe he saw a thing. And what if he did? He's going to know it anyhow, and pretty quick, too. I want to shout it from the housetops, I want to megaphone it up to the stars. Lilly Lilly-mine!
She looked properly surprised, and this was just how they had hoped she would look. "Where am I?" she said. Of course Slightly was the first to get his word in. "Wendy lady," he said rapidly, "for you we built this house." "Oh, say you're pleased," cried Nibs. "Lovely, darling house," Wendy said, and they were the very words they had hoped she would say.
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