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Link felt a glow of relief that the advertisement had not said "a brown-and-white collie." Chum was viewing his new surroundings with much attention, looking up now and then into his master's face as they moved along the rackety line as though to gain reassurance that all was well. To a high-strung and sensitive dog a show is a terrific ordeal.
Their household is the most rackety one in the county, and I believe no one ever knows to an hour or two when any particular meal will appear on the table or what it will consist of when it does appear." Eleanor Saxelby shuddered. She liked her meals to be of regular occurrence and assured proportions. "Still," pursued Mrs.
Then a merchant called Mustafa came seeking slaves for his galley. After much crafty bargaining he secured Nicholas and his companions for about two-thirds the original price asked. But the Khawadji refused to part with Stephen Giffard. The galley was a rackety, noisome trading-ship that plied along the coast.
They've got a jolly old manor-house; they asked me down there." Soames coughed: the news was distasteful to him. "What's his wife like now?" "Very quiet, but nice, I think." Soames coughed again. "He's a rackety chap, your Cousin Val." "Oh! no, Father; they're awfully devoted. I promised to go Saturday to Wednesday next." "Training race-horses!" said Soames.
'Od dang it all, 'tis enough to But I won't say any more at present, mee deer, though it is just too much to expect to turn out of the house now. We shan't get another quiet place at this time of the evening every other inn in the town is bustling with rackety folk of one sort and t'other, while here 'tis as quiet as the grave the country, I would say.
By this time the Maumbrys had frequently listened to the preaching of the gentle if narrow-minded curate; for these light-natured, hit-or-miss, rackety people went to church like others for respectability's sake. None so orthodox as your unmitigated worldling. A more remarkable event was the sight to the man in the window of Captain Maumbry and Mr.
Dicey, you go draw yo' pallet close-t outside the do', an' lay down an' I'll set here by the fire an' keep watch. How my ol' stockin'-feet do tromp! Do lemme hurry an' set down! Seem like this room's awful rackety, the fire a-poppin' an' tumblin', an' me breathin' like a porpoise. Even the clock ticks ez excited ez I feel. Wonder how they sleep through it all! But they do.
The last of the homestead, now an irregular heap of smouldering ashes over which stray lambent flames flickered and danced, served to shed sufficient light to show where two still figures lay under the shelter of Dudgeon's rackety old buggy, thrown over on its side.
It was the first indiscretion he had committed for so long that he went and sat down in an alcove. What had possessed him to give his card to a rackety young fellow, who went about with a thing like that? And Fleur, always at the back of his thoughts, started out like a filigree figure from a clock when the hour strikes.
She told herself she would never sleep a wink in this rackety place, and would have sought comfort in the resolution to go home the next morning, if she had not had Ellen to face, and the servants and neighbours to whom she had boasted so much.
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