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His mother is dead, and the General is his own worst enemy; eats and drinks too much, and thinks he can get away with it." "Are they very rich ?" "Millions, with only Derry to leave it to. He's the child of a second wife." Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely Cinderella, could your godmother do more than this? To endow two rained-on and shabby gentlemen with pomp and circumstance!
Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every part, Captain Ireson stood in the cart. Scores of women, old and young, Strong of muscle, and glib of tongue, Pushed and pulled up the rocky lane, Shouting and singing the shrill refrain: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead!"
I had to find my way home from a cart inn the night before we started along a newly rained-on muddy Chinese street in the dark. Next day I had much brightness shed on the journey by one of the Chinese Christians a poor man with, oh, so poor a coat giving a donation to print Christian books. I suppose God gave him the heart to give it. Starting a journey with such a bit of light made it cheery.
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