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"My poor girl," said she, "do you know that you have already paid for that single five shillings the enormous sum of £7 10s.? I believe it is the most profitable five shillings Mrs. Sponge ever laid out." "O no, madam," said the girl, "that good gentlewoman does the same kindness to ten or twelve other poor friendless creatures like me."
Here was a mass like an immense sponge, even to the colour, and there, descending from the roof down the side of the rock, was the waved hair of an undine that had been changed into white and glistening stone. The stalactites were less remarkable. The sound of dropping water told us that another cascade was near.
Jogglebury, in ecstasies; then addressing the child, she said, 'Now that is a good boy that is a fine fellow. Now couldn't he say it all over by himself, doesn't he think? Mrs. Jogglebury looking at Sponge, as if she was meditating the richest possible treat for him. 'Oh, replied Mr.
Just as in Venice we find the provisions for the denizens of the city brought to the inhabitants by the canals, so from the water, which, as we shall see, is perpetually circulating through a sponge, the members of the sponge-colony receive their food. Look, again, at the sponge-fragment which lies before us.
Sponge, however, knew no points, and was quite at sea; indeed, even if he had, they would have been of little use, for a fitful and frequently obscured moon threw such bewildering lights and shades around, that a native would have had some difficulty in recognizing the country.
"You're bringing down trouble, I'm afraid, child," said Angeline, gravely, as she walked back and forth, doing her work. Mrs. Parlin, away off at Willowbrook, was at that moment bathing Mrs. Clifford's forehead. I think she might have dropped the sponge in dismay if she had known what pernicious nonsense was finding its way into Dotty's ears.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
"Good-night, mother," she called back. "Are you waiting for anything?" "Did you set the sponge for the bread?" "Oh, yes," in a laughing voice. And then the mother went slowly and wonderingly up the stairs, muttering "Well! well! Of all things!" Marjorie drew Aunt Prue's letter from her pocket to think it all over again by herself. Mr. Holmes was buried in manuscript.
The next moment the door was shut and bolted, and Draycott followed the Lascar's example just in time: green dressing-gown was returning with his sponge. In official parlance, a general action seemed imminent. . . . It opened with the crash of heavy artillery in the shape of strange and loud expletives of an Indian nature, to be followed immediately by an attack in force on the hostile position.
The maid tried to dissuade her; but Emily got out of bed, and allowed herself to be dressed. She was very weak so weak that she could hardly stand up at the washstand; and the maid had to sponge her face and neck. But when she had drunk a cup of tea and eaten a little piece of toast, she said she felt better, and was able to walk into the drawing-room.
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