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He was called a "savage," a "devil in man's shape," and other dainty names; but he was left to eat his squab pie in peace. "Patience, lads," quoth he, as he filled his mouth. "Before I take my pleasure at this wedding, I will hand my own dish round as well as any of you." Whereat men wondered, but held their tongues.
"Oh, I'm wise I'm wise," Aggie nodded, as she hurried out toward her bedroom. "I'll be a squab surest thing you know!"
I'll take you down in the morning in my car to Medicine Bend; this barber will go with us. There in the hospital you can get everything you need, and I can make you comfortable. What do you say?" McCloud looked at his benefactor solemnly, but if hope flickered for an instant in his eyes it soon died. Bucks said afterward that he looked like a cold-storage squab, just pinfeathers and legs.
"Take th' squab, mester," he said, pointing to the sofa. I took it. He picked up the candle; then dropped it, and lighted a lamp which was on the mantelpiece between his vases of blue glass. His movements were very slow, hesitating and clumsy. Blowing out the candle, which smoked for a long time, he went with the lamp to the bookcase.
He began with a little clam-broth; then came half a dozen steamed clams, followed by a small portion of mock-turtle soup. Of a squab he ate one-half, and with it some canned pease and fried potatoes; while for dessert he had a little lemon ice. "'That was good, he exclaimed, as he finished. The remark was unnecessary; the relish with which he had eaten was convincing testimony of his enjoyment.
Tetlow and Miss Hallowell were going out evidently to lunch together. She was looking up at the chief clerk with laughing eyes they seemed coquettish to the infuriated Norman. And Tetlow the serious and squab young ass was gazing at her with the expression men of the stupid squab sort put on when they wish to impress a woman.
At all events, a short, squab female relative who was present at his birth exclaimed as she lifted up the baby: "He is altogether different from what I had expected him to be.
'I'll soon make you, replied her ladyship, seizing the squab, and pulling it on to the floor. As the captain was scrambling up, in came Peter one of the wageless footmen with candles, which having distributed equitably about the room, he approached Lady Scattercash, and asked, in an independent sort of way, what room Mr. Soapsuds was to have. 'Soapsuds!
The great squab seems at such times to be sprawling in space, without the least support. She comes to an abrupt stop two inches from the ground; the silk-reel ceases working. The Spider turns round, clutches the line which she has just obtained and climbs up by this road, still spinning.
This meek, modest young thing, who looked like she wouldn't know a lip-stick from a boiled carrot, plannin' cold-blooded to throw up a nice respectable job and enter herself in the squab market! Why, I wouldn't have been jarred more if Piddie had announced that next season he was going to do bareback ridin' for some circus.
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