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All the child's distress and nervousness and unaccountable unhappiness were related, and the sage little woman shook her head several times over the narrative, and said at last, in a very common-sense voice "It's as clear as a pikestaff to Jemima Dredge that that sweet little child has been tampered with.
"You think you've been trifled with, don't you, dear?" "No " "Yes, you do! Don't you try to be slippery, Molly. The plain pikestaff is your style, morally speaking if any one knows what a pikestaff is. Well, now, listen! You're anxious about me." "You know how I feel, Bessie," said Mary Enderby, looking her in the eyes. "Yes, I do," said Bessie. "The trouble is, I don't know how I feel.
"The fair young man is meant for Ben Lippet," said his wife, "and the dark one is Charlie Foss. It must be. It's no use shutting your eyes to things." "It's as plain as a pikestaff," agreed her husband. "And she told Charlie five years for bigamy, and when she's telling Flora's Fortune she sees 'im in convict's clothes. How she does it I can't think." "It's a gift," said Mrs.
The menu at dinner was little better; it stirred up sad recollections of the past. We had imitations; apologies for puddings, plain and hard as a pikestaff, were everywhere. They were not essentially cheap, because eggs, the chief ingredient, were fabulously fresh. As for the geese that laid not, well, they did not cackle either; their bones had long since been mumbled.
"Why, it is much plainer than any pikestaff," Hoffland replied, laughing; "listen, and I will explain.
Up he rose at the dawn of the next day, and, taking his stout pikestaff in his hand, he set forth upon his journey once more, as though he would make up for lost time. In the good town of Blyth there lived a stout tanner, celebrated far and near for feats of strength and many tough bouts at wrestling and the quarterstaff.
The press teemed with tracts and pamphlets, written in language "as plain as a pikestaff," against the immoralities of the theatres, those "seminaries of vice," and calling down the judgment of God upon the cost and the monstrosities of the dress of both men and women; while the town roared on its way, warned by sermons, and instructed in its chosen path by such plays and masques as Ben Jonson's "Pleasure reconciled to Virtue."
"The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my soul! here is her carriage at the door."
There's some rotten dirty work going on somewhere; that's as plain as a pikestaff. I believe these people are simply using you as a cats-paw. All they want is to get hold of the secret of this new explosive of yours; then as likely as not they'll hand you over to the police, or else...." he paused. "Well, you've seen the sort of crowd they are.
He also had a younger brother, who was twice married, and had five sons viz., Distaff, Pikestaff, Mopstaff, Broomstaff, and Raggedstaff.
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