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Updated: May 25, 2025
When it was poured out into huge cups, which might have been styled small slop-basins, and sweetened and passed round, Robin applied his knuckles to the table to command silence. "Friends," said he, "I niver wos much o' a speechifier, but I could always manage to blurt out my meanin' somehow.
Mary was working and toiling again for the benefit of her guests carrying kettles of boiling water into the inner room emptying pounds of brown sugar into slop-basins and mugs telling the boys to take their punch taking a drop herself now and again, with some one who was wishing her health and happiness, and comfort with the man she'd got inciting the girls to go and dance and scolding her brother and husband, because, "bad manners to them, divil a hand they'd lend to help her, and she with so much to do, and so many to mind."
Try and call up to yourself three hours in a low-class cook-shop, coated an inch thick with filth, and fitted over the boiler of a penny steamer dancing a marine break-down on the Thames, opposite the outlet of the main-drainage pipes. That, intensified by strange oaths and slop-basins, was the passage by the Alcorta. But dreary, lonely San Sebastian was not to be endured.
A few minutes later he returned. I was then at my ablutions. Now, although I have grown pretty well accustomed to go through this daily duty with the aid of salad-bowls and slop-basins while living in the French provinces, I think it good for the mind to keep up the illusion of a thorough wash even when this is practically impossible.
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