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'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this maun gang in the baggage-cart. And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery.
'Hoo 'ill she manage that, honest woman? She maun hae but little to spare frae the cleedin' o' 'm. 'She's a gude manager, Mistress Faukner. And, ye see, she has the bleachgreen yet. 'She doesna weir cotton sarks, growled MacGregor. 'Mony's the wob o' mine she's bleached and boucht tu! Nobody heeding him yet, he began to feel insulted, and broke in upon the conversation with intent.
Their bodies plunge. Factory lasses with fancy clothes toss redhot Yorkshire baraabombs. Society ladies lift their skirts above their heads to protect themselves. Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broomsticks. Quakerlyster plasters blisters. It rains dragons' teeth. Armed heroes spring up from furrows.
Never did her wheel spin so blithely since her husband was taken from her side, as when she put the first lint upon the rock for his college sarks. Proudly did she show to her neighbours her double spinel yarn observing, "It's nae finer than he deserves, poor fallow, for he'll pay me back some day." The web was bleached and the shirts made by her own hands; and the day of his departure arrived.
'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this maun gang in the baggage-cart. And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery.
'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this maun gang in the baggage-cart. And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery.
'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this maun gang in the baggage-cart. And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery.
Just then in walked Halvor, and then the lassies were all so taken aback, they forgot their sarks in the ingle, where they were sitting darning their clothes, and ran out in their smocks. Well, when they were got back again, they were so shamefaced they scarce dared look at Halvor, towards whom they had always been proud and haughty.
It was true, but he would have preferred not to answer. Grizel's questions, however, were all so straight in the face, that there was no dodging them. "I have on twa suits o' clothes, and a' my sarks," he had to admit, sticky and sullen. She stopped, but he trudged on doggedly. She ran after him and gave his arm an impulsive squeeze with both hands, "Oh, you sweet!" she said.
But she shook her head and I heard her telling mother later that, in her opinion, 'cooties' and 'sarks' were not proper subjects for young girls to talk about. She was especially horrified when Jem wrote in his last letter to mother, 'Tell Susan I had a fine cootie hunt this morning and caught fifty-three! Susan positively turned pea-green. 'Mrs.
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