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Updated: June 13, 2025
That worthy was leisurely smoking a cigarette in a quiet corner, and was making the smoke curl up gracefully over the hairy tuft on his nose. Sampey was paler than usual and a little nervous, for the business of his visit was tinged with hazard. Bat, who happened to feel good-natured, gave the first greeting. "Hey!" he called out. Sampey went straight to him. "You lika da show, ha, Samp?
A few cooking-pots, earthen jars, rice-baskets, some knives, a wooden chest, and several spears, completed the furniture. Against the northern roof-post hung a small bottle-shaped basket, which contained the household sampey, or god, or charm.
One of the latest is a pathetic tale of the 'suicide of a tenant. It represents that Andrew Kelly, of Cloonlaugh, 'one of the three tenants against whom A.W. Sampey, J.P., landlord, obtained ejectments, became demented from the fear of eviction, and drowned himself in a bog hole in consequence. The account is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. Andrew Kelly was not a tenant of Mr.
But as this narrative is to tell the little secrets of the museum, it should be explained that the real object of the young man's deepest admiration was Mademoiselle Zoë, the Severed Lady, billed also as the Wonderful French Phenomenon. Zoë was rosy-cheeked, pretty, and had a freckled nose. The impecunious writer was named Sampey. Sampey secretly loved Zoë.
Castellani, exceedingly gracious and friendly after the signing of the compact, proposed a quiet supper in his private apartments in celebration of the new arrangement, and presently he and Zoë and Sampey were enjoying a very choice meal. Zoë was dazzlingly radiant and pretty, but a certain strange constraint sat between her and Sampey.
Last night you had amber eyes such beautiful eyes the hero-eyes of my dreams!" "My dear child, you certainly were dreaming." "Oh, no! I saw them! My heart jumped so! I knew you I knew you and your eyes were amber!" Sampey smiled sadly and a little complacently, and with great modesty said: "I can't doubt you, my dear child, but I assure you that I was unconscious of my amber eyes.
Surely Bat was much more desirable than Sampey! Sampey was wise and Bat was foolish. On the other hand, Bat was courageous and Sampey was timid. Bat had the courage of a brute. Sampey knew that there were certain ways of frightening brave brutes he had even seen a prize-fighter join a church. He prepared for Bat. One day he entered the museum between exhibitions and sought the Wild Man of Milo.
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