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Again, with the other arts the result comes only after the learning is done; their fruits alone are agreeable; 'long and steep the road thereto. Sponging is once more an exception, in that profit and learning here go hand in hand; you grasp your end as soon as you begin.
He could walk his thirty miles with his gun on his shoulder as well now as he could ten years ago; and being sure of this, was thoroughly contented with himself. He had a patrimony amounting to perhaps L1000 a year, which he husbanded so as to enjoy all his amusements to perfection. No one had ever heard of his sponging on his friends.
Susan whispered, with white lips, to Billy who was at the telephone. "What do you think of sponging her face off with ice-water?" he asked in a low tone. Susan fled to the kitchen. Mary Lou, seated by the table where the great roast stood in a confusion of unwashed plates and criss-crossed silver, was sobbing violently. "Oh, Sue she's dying!" whispered Mary Lou, "I know it!
That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, is down here again sponging at the Van Buren. We observe that the besotted blackguard of the Mud Springs Morning Howl is giving out, with his usual propensity for lying, that Van Werter is not elected.
Let me tell you something, Dan: a woman that will stoop to the petty leg-pulling, sponging, grafting that she does to save two bits or less has got a thief's make-up. Her mania for money, for getting, for saving it, is a matter of common knowledge. "You know and I know that she will do any indelicate thing which occurs to her to get what she wants without paying for it.
And Esther had been sponging and cleaning at it all the morning, and had left directions that it was to be taken to the Barracks in the afternoon. Presently the dogcart came spinning round to the door in great style, Pip driving and Pat looking sulkily on.
"But I thought it was not the rule to stay for so long here?" I said. "Yes, that's true: if anyone stays too long, sponging on the monks, he is asked to go. Judge for yourself, if the proletariat were allowed to stay on here as long as they liked there would never be a room vacant, and they would eat up the whole monastery. That's true.
Vesta showed her how to administer cool drink and the sponging to the sufferer, and he saw them together with a look of inquiry which the febrile action soon drove away. "Are your parents living, Rhoda?" "No'm; they're both dead. My mother was Uncle Meshach's sister, and she married a rich man, who biled salt and had vessels an' kept tavern. Father Hullin died of the pilmonary; mar died next.
Tyc. Out with it, then, as you know. Si. An art, as I once heard a wise man say, is a body of perceptions regularly employed for some useful purpose in human life. Tyc. And he was quite right. Si. So, if sponging has all these marks, it must be an art? Tyc. If, yes. Si.
Sunlight gave way to the twilight of a July evening, and dense darkness at last covered the combatants, but still the fight went on. Columns of the enemy charged in such close and rapid succession that the British artillerymen were constantly assailed in the very act of sponging and loading their guns.
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