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Yes, and she was Lord Fleetwood's wife, cracking sconces, a demoiselle Moll Flanders, the world's Whitechapel Countess out for an airing, infernally earnest about it, madly ludicrous; the schemer to catch his word, the petticoated Shylock to bind him to the letter of it; now persecuting, haunting him, now immoveable for obstinacy; malignant to stay down in those vile slums and direct tons of sooty waters on his head from its mains in the sight of London, causing the least histrionic of men to behave as an actor.
Gammit's clearing, and realized, after long and cautious investigations, that its presiding genius was nothing more formidable than one of those petticoated creatures who trembled at his growl, he had licked his chops with pleasant anticipation. Here, at last, was his opportunity, the flesh-pots of servitude, with freedom. Nevertheless, the old bear was prudent.
'Why, what have you been about, Tommy, lifting the little petticoated lad, who was lying sobbing, with one vigorous arm. Tommy looked at him with surprise in his round eyes, but no affright they were evidently old acquaintances. 'Mammy's jug! said he, at last, beginning to cry afresh. 'Well! and will crying piece mammy's jug, or pick up spilt milk? How did you manage it, Tommy?
And always the Jackie band from the Great Lakes Station, its white leggings twinkling down the street in the lead of its six-foot-six contortionistic drum-major. By October the window-gazers, watching the parades from the Raynor windows, were mostly petticoated and exclamatory. Jock stayed away from the window now.
'But, my dear girl, don't you see, the devilry was intended by Nature. Life would be the coldest of dishes without it. And as for mixing the breeched and petticoated in those young days 'I can't enter into it, my lord considerately said. 'All I can tell you is, I know boys. Aminta persisted in looking thoughtful. 'Things are bad, as they are now, she said. 'Always were always will be.
When you had an inclination for feminine society, you shaved and changed your clothes and thought up an impromptu or so against emergency, and went forth to seek it. That was natural; but to have a petticoated young person infesting your house, hourly, was as preposterous as ice-cream soda at breakfast. The metaphor set him off at a tangent.
We looked at one another, the Hammal swore that he would perish foully rather than obey, and conceive, dear L., the idea of a petticoated pilgrim venerable as to beard and turban breaking into a long "double!" I expressed much the same sentiment.
To be sure, upon the verge of seventy, an old maid may be permitted to dispense with the more rigid punctilio of her class, but Mrs. Now Farmer Robinson was quite as notorious for his aversion to petticoated things, as Mrs.
And there was a lively restless air about her full of intelligence, as she manoeuvred her brother towards a stone seat, guarded by a couple of cupids reining in sleepy-looking lions in stone, where, under the shade of a lime-tree, her little petticoated brother of two years old was asleep, cradled in the lap of a large, portly, handsome woman, in a dark dress, a white cap and apron, and dark crimson cloak, loosely put back, as it was an August day.
Whatever he had done, it was to establish the petticoated hornet in the dignity of matron of a champion light-weight's wholesome retreat of a public-house. A spell of his larkish hilarity was for the punishment of the girl devoted to his heroical performances, as he still considered her to be, though women are notoriously volatile, and her language was mounting a stage above the kitchen.
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