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Jim went through a great mental convulsion. At first, what seemed to him the magnitude of the life, enterprise and wealth of the city, depressed him. He declared that he "had ben growin' smaller an' smaller every minute" since he left Sevenoaks. "I felt as if I'd allers ben a fly, crawlin' 'round on the edge of a pudden," he said, when asked whether he enjoyed the city.
"Me no know fo' sure," said Rebecca, "but me t'ink, t'ink, till me yell in me tleep. Somethin' ter'ble go to happen. Me feel he in de air. All de daddys, all de buddys, 'peak, 'peak, togedder all de time, an' look so bad an' de oby doctors put de curse ebberywheres. Me fine befo' de gate dis mornin' one pudden', de mud an' oil an' horsehair, but me no touch he.
Here the waiter arrived with three plates balanced on one arm, and the remark: "I 'urried up the pudden, sir. You'll find plenty o' lark in it to-day." Mr. Bellby applauded his forethought with a dip of his nose.
Sister, discovering me still in the kitchen, informed me that I might leave. "You ain't 'ad any supper, 'ave you?" said Mrs. Mappin. "You won't get none now, neither. Should 'ave done a bunk a full hower back, you should." She drew me into the larder, and indicated the debris of our patients' repast. "A leg of chicken and some rice pudden. Only wasted if you don't 'ave it."
The tops of the southern Catskills are all capped with a kind of conglomerate, or "pudden stone," a rock of cemented quartz pebbles which underlies the coal measures. This rock disintegrates under the action of the elements, and the sand and gravel which result are carried into the valleys and make up the most of the soil.
Oi'm his lad." "He's coming with me later," said Nelson. "Won't you too?" "Maybe," said Blob. "When Oi got ma money." "Plenty o killing, you know, Blob," said the Parson slyly. Blob rippled off into roguish laughter. "Oi'll coom," he said. "Mate, pudden and killin that's what Oi loike." Nelson stood at the gangway. "Good-bye, Kit.
'I tell thee what, lad, I'll come and quarter with thee, and help thee to be master. It 'ud be prime. Only maybe the victuals wouldn't suit me. Last Sunday, afore thy father's buryin', we'd a dinner of duck and green peas, and leg of lamb, and custard pudden, and ale. Martha doesn't get a dinner like that for thee, I reckon. 'No, answered Stephen shortly. 'Maybe it wouldn't suit.
Then she appeared at the foot of the stairs, with an anxious excited face and speaking breathlessly. "Mary can't leave th' Yorkshire pudden, sir; but she says she saw Mrs. Dale with th' hat in her hand after you wore it on Wednesday to Manninglea." "Yes, but where is it now, Norah?" "I do think Mrs. Dale must have put it in the cupboard under the stairs to get it safe out of Billy's way."
Here the waiter arrived with three plates balanced on one arm, and the remark: "I 'urried up the pudden, sir. You'll find plenty o' lark in it to-day." Mr. Bellby applauded his forethought with a dip of his nose.
He had never really loved her, she declares; his affection for her had been interested, though even in her wrath she admits that he really loved her husband; he cared less for her conversation, which she had fancied necessary to his existence, than for her "roast beef and plumb pudden," which he now devours too "dirtily for endurance."
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