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Vernon was not inclined to concede to all his companion had just said, and, in fact, was mentally arranging the proper language in which to express his dissent, when a fresh arrival of piping-hot rashers turned the current of his thoughts towards the eggs and bacon, about which, instead of saying any thing, he quietly helped himself to, and then handed over the dish to his friend.
And I say, Moggie, ask somebody to run across and get me a 'Police News' and 'Clippings' and 'The Kennel' understand? Two eggs, Moggie, and three rashers, toasted crisp understand?" As the girl turned to descend a voice called to her from another room on the same floor, a voice very distinctly feminine, rather shrill, and a trifle imperative. "Moggie, I want my hot water-sharp!"
On my seventeenth birthday, and was left a widow in exactly two years' time. Your poor dear granf " "Thank you, grannie, thank you! Seven!" "Seven what, Hennessey? One would th " "And now, dear grannie, tell me one thing, only one little thing more. About that is, talking of rashes " "Rashers!" "No, grannie, rashes illnesses, you know, that take an epidemic form." "Well, what about them?
She put one of them back in the cupboard, broke the coal on the fire, settled the kettle up to the blaze, fixed the Dutch oven with three rashers of bacon before the bars, then lit a candle, and, with a nervous look around, turned to go upstairs.
He now lifted the hissing rashers from the pan to a tin plate, which he set upon the grass at my feet, together with the bread and the butter; and, having produced a somewhat battered knife and fork, handed them to me with another bright nod. "You are very kind!" said I. "Why, I'm a man as is fond o' company, y' see especially of one who can think, and talk, and you have the face of both.
However, there was no retreating now; for though his fear counselled flight, very shame restrained him. The repast was varied and abundant, consisting of all kinds of fricassees, collops and rashers, boiled salmon from the Thames, trout and pike from the same river, boiled pea-chickens, and turkey-poults, and florentines of puff paste, calves-foot pies, and set custards.
"Well, you may think it was melancholy enough to pass the night up there alone with a corpse, in an ould ruined church in the middle of the mountains, the wind howling about on every side, and the snowdrift beating against the walls; but as the fire burned brightly, and the little plate of rashers and eggs smoked temptingly before him, my father mixed a jug of the strongest punch, and sat down as happy as a king.
It deserves more than just to be slept in...." "Aren't English breakfasts the best you ever tasted?" David asked as they sat down to rashers of home-cured ham, corpulent brown sausages, and eggs poached to a nicety. So far David had made an excellent guide. They had never once diverged from the road they meant to take, but this third day of the run turned out to be somewhat confused.
'Don't heed her, gentlemen, said the man in a husky voice, 'she's a bit daft, poor girl, and as he spoke he trod noisily on the stone floor, evidently trying to drown her voice, and forthwith dragged a table that stood in the window somewhat nearer the hearth. Mary had now finished with her potatoes, and was cutting rashers of bacon which were soon sizzling delightfully in the pan.
It was this fixed stare that tempted Frank at last to give him a few drops of laudanum, and in an hour later he had the satisfaction of seeing him close his eyes. Abe was round soon after daylight, with two pannikins of tea, some rashers of bacon, and a jug of the essence of beef. "How is your patient, Frank?" "I can't tell, except by his pulse; but that certainly seems to me to be stronger.
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