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They continued their pillage, therefore, collecting together everything valuable, and even dragging away the carpets from beneath them; they laid hands on the noodle and his wife, taking from their persons every article of jewellery, while they, in fear of losing the wager, said not a word.
'Make Tom clear out and leave her in peace, suggested Ted, almost himself again, though a pensive haze still partially obscured his native gaiety. 'Yes, do! he frets her like a mosquito. She forbade him to come out here while she stayed, and packed him off with Demi. I like old Tom, but he is a regular noodle about Nan, added Rob, as he went away to help his father with the accumulated letters.
He is a kind of softie all alive on one side of his brain, and a noodle on the other. A single glass of rum and water puts him under the table. And as he never can refuse this glass, and as the temptation generally seizes him when they are on their rounds, he is always getting John into disgrace. John swears at him and slangs him. No use. Jim sits still, looks well, nohow.
Go your ways in peace; but first tell me, who are you? They replied, 'We are the Fire-eaters: far from our own land, and strangers, you have done us this service; what, now, can we do to serve you? 'Put me in the way of a living, said Noodle, 'and you will do me the greatest service of all.
The giant turned uneasily in his sleep, and the garden of the Burning Rose rocked to its foundations as the edge of things real pierced into it. 'While I stay here there is danger, thought Noodle. 'Surely I must make haste to possess myself of the Rose and to escape!
Father, you shan't leave it for me. Forgive me, I am a wayward girl!" And the strung nerves gave way, and tears gushed over the hot cheeks, as she clung to her father, and tried to turn the current of her despised love and bestow it all on that selfish old noodle. A great treasure went a-begging in Grassmere farmhouse. Mr. Meadows called, but much to his chagrin Susan was never visible.
I had heard of Miss Havisham up town, everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town, as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion. "Well to be sure!" said Joe, astounded. "I wonder how she come to know Pip!" "Noodle!" cried my sister. "Who said she knew him?"
"There is shade all the way," suggested the Doctor, "I said as much to a young woman this morning who has been in the hotel for nearly two months, and hasn't seen the Pyramids yet." "What has she been doing with herself?" asked Lady Fulkeward, smiling. "Dancing with officers," said Dr. Dean. "How can Cheops compare with a moustached noodle in military uniform!
"Well, if you are not," answered the fisherman, "why do you cause me bad luck by your words every time I throw my net?" "I didn't mean to bring you bad luck," said the noodle. "I only repeat what I was told to repeat."
Silly Matt has a brother in Russia, according to M. Leger's Contes Populaires Slaves, published at Paris in 1882: An old man and his wife had a son, who was about as great a noodle as could be. One day his mother said to him, "My son, thou shouldst go about among people, to get thyself sharpened and rubbed down a little." "Yes, mother," says he; "I'm off this moment."
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