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Updated: June 23, 2025
The organ-grinder did not treat him well, and who that really knew Topaz would dream of taking a whip to force him to his work! He started up from the seat, but forced himself back and opened the small bundle of dry bread and meat; for there was no knowing when he should eat again.
He told me, some time ago, that he was a delegate to the Medical Convention." "I believe it is rather uncertain; but probably he will not return before October." "Indeed! That is a long time for a physician to absent himself." Just then an organ-grinder paused on the pavement beneath the window and began a beautiful air from "Sonnambula."
Williams and her daughter being out Nelly, having a few minutes to spare, was standing at the open door, listening to the plaintive strains of an organ-grinder who was playing close by.
At last he disappeared from the notice of his friends, to re-appear again in a short time under different circumstances. One day his friends were attracted by the sight of a crowd collected around a cracked and ricketty hand-organ. Approaching it they found that the organ-grinder was no less a person than Sergeant Williams.
The brown dog dropped to all fours, and his hopeless air sent a pang through the princess. The organ-grinder held out his cap. "I don't think much of your dog's dancing," said Gabriel, looking him in the eye. "I could make him do better, myself." "It doesn't do to use the whip too much," replied the organ-grinder, but Gabriel had already gone on his knees beside the dog and whispered to him.
'Caught! thought the Squirradical. England is supposed to be unmusical; but without dwelling on the patronage extended to the organ-grinder, without seeking to found any argument on the prevalence of the jew's trump, there is surely one instrument that may be said to be national in the fullest acceptance of the word. 'The thing becomes a trumpet, whence he blows'
He reminded her, she said, of a specially stupid organ-grinder, grinding all out of time the vulgarest and most threadbare tunes. Henceforth, applying the name of a character in Dickens, she spoke of Hollingford's representative as Robb the Grinder; which, when Mr.
She ran to the window and looked out. The sky was grey, the street was foggy, a dismal organ-grinder was standing opposite the door, a beggar and a man who sold matches were quarrelling at the edge of the pavement on whose greasy black surface people hurried along, hastening to get to the shelter of their houses. 'Oh, look at their faces, their horrible faces! she cried.
They found him in an attitude more than once, but they never doubted I was doing him as an organ-grinder. There were several things they never guessed, and one of them was that for a striking scene in the novel, in which a footman briefly figured, it occurred to me to make use of Major Monarch as the menial.
The first lady, who was a star in her lowly orbit, was very great in all her different roles, appearing now as a sailor with the hornpipe of his calling, now as an organ-grinder, and now as a dissolute young gentleman, whatever was the exigency of good morals.
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