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Updated: September 8, 2025
"Then you mustn't cry if I stay," said Polly, stopping short, and seeing her advantage, "for I surely shall go, Adela," she added firmly, "unless you stop crying." "O dear me." Adela squirmed all over the bed. "I can't stop I've always cried as much as I wanted to. O dear me boo-hoo-hoo! I mean I'll stop, don't go " sopping up her wet face with a nervous hand.
It was, however, too slippery for me and I fell. Alfred plunged into the burn and scrambled me out. I landed on my feet and, except for sopping stockings, no harm was done. Our party had scattered in the dark and, as it was past midnight, we walked back to the house alone. When we returned, we found everybody had gone to their rooms and Alfred suggested carrying me up to bed.
"No," said Mrs. McGee shortly. "You are catching cold," he said quickly, his whole face brightening with a sudden tenderness that seemed to transfigure the dark features. "I am keeping you here when you should be changing your clothes. Go, I beg you, at once." She stood still provokingly, with an affectation of wiping her arms and shoulders and sopping her wet dress with clusters of moss.
Gervaise, during this incident, had commenced a cap belonging to Madame Boche, which she intended to take great pains with. She had prepared some boiled starch to make it look new again. She was gently passing a little iron rounded at both ends over the inside of the crown of the cap, when a bony-looking woman entered the shop, her face covered with red blotches and her skirts sopping wet.
Yellow Handkerchief approached me, and, pointing out his village on the Point Pedro beach, gave me to understand that if I turned the Reindeer in that direction and put them ashore, they, in turn, would go to bailing. By now the water in the cabin was up to the bunks, and the bed-clothes were sopping. It was a foot deep on the cockpit floor.
Beefy Wilson and Jem Duffy between them found Jigger's body and brought it as far as the dressing station. Behind the trenches Beefy's company and Jem's section took different roads, and the two old friends parted with a casual 'S' long' and 'See you again sometime. Duffy had two hours' sleep in a sopping wet roofless house, about three miles behind the firing line.
As soon as he was secure, I spread out my sopping wet blankets in the first space I could find. Wet through as I was, I rolled myself up in my wetter blankets, and soon should have been asleep, had it not been for the moanings of the man I had rescued. He wished he hadn't come; he was sure the exposure would kill him, and he wondered why people were such fools as to take unnecessary trips.
The potato, however, he praises as nutritious and pleasant to the taste, yet, as Gerarde the herbalist also says, flatulent. Venner refers to a mode of sopping them in wine as existing in his time. They were sometimes roasted in the embers, and there were other ways of dressing them.
Jean blinked open her eyes, slipped into her dressing jacket and sat up with a yawn. "Have I heard about Mrs. Meredith? Many times," she said. "But what somebody did last night, miss?" Jean was wide awake now. "What has happened to Mrs. Meredith?" she asked. "Why, miss, somebody played a practical joke on her. Her bed's sopping." "Sopping?" frowned the girl. "Yes, miss," the woman nodded.
The latter forgot how lightly she was shod, and before she was half-way across the lawn her feet and ankles were saturated with dew. "You'll get sopping wet, Aggie!" cried Ruth, seeing the bed slippers flopping, half off her sister's feet. "Can't help it now," stammered Agnes. "Got to get that pig! Oh, Ruth! the hateful thing!" The cobbler's porker was a freebooter of wide experience.
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