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"And now, tell me," continued my companion, drawing nearer to the fire and settling himself with a confidential air that was peculiarly provoking, "what is she like? Young or old? Dark or fair? Plain or pretty?" "Old," said I, desperately. "Old and ugly. Fifty at the least. Squints horribly." Then, thinking that I had been a little too emphatic, I added:
"Why, Gaston, it bored me to the very verge of yawning in my lover's countenance. I, too, had no idea but that it would bore you equally " "Hein?" said the Duke. " to hear what d'Humieres " "He squints!" cried the Duc de Puysange. " or de Crequy " "That red-haired ape!" he muttered. " or d'Arlanges, or or any of them, was pleased to say.
Just then I hears a gurgle, like some one's bein' choked with a chicken bone, and I squints around behind. There was Piddie, lookin' like the buildin' was fallin' down and tryin' to uncork some remarks. "Ah, Piddie!" says the gent. "Perhaps you will introduce me to your new sentry and give me the password." Well, Piddie did. He almost got on his hands and knees doin' it.
He squints at the burlap package, and then at the message, and all of a sudden he makes a break for the 'phone. He hadn't begun movin' before I was up to the window with my receipt, callin' for 'em to get a hustle on, as Mr. Doe had run out of veal and had to have it in a hurry. Ever try to poke up one of them box jugglers?
Old Hickory chokes some on a swallow of black coffee he's just hoisted in; but he recovers enough to nod. "Does he get the run?" says I. "I neglected consulting you about it, Torchy," says he; "but his resignation has been called for." "Filled the job yet?" says I. "Fortunately, no," says he, and I knew by the way he squints that he thought he was bein' mighty humorous.
"Mary is a cook, she writes nice letters and makes lemon pies; Martha is a nice girl, she has yellow hair and blue eyes; Robert is tall and strong, he is a coachman and squints with his left eye"; and so on and so on. A few families of this size absorbed Doris's attention for hours at a time.
My baby is all right, but he squints. Does yours? I remain yours truly, the permannente, MILLY BURT." Anger possessed Mavis at the trick Mrs Gowler had played in order to secure a further shilling from her already attenuated store, an emotion which increased her distress of mind.
No doubt it seems the truth of truth to you; but I do assure you that, like every other Abolitionist, you look at matters with an awful squint, which distorts everything within your line of vision; and it is queer, though natural, that you think everybody squints, except yourselves. Perhaps they do; but certainly you do.
The fine panelled roof covering the N. aisle should be observed, and the projecting figures on the wall-plate of the nave. Other features claiming attention are the unusual direction of the squints in the chancel arch, Perp. screens , rood-loft stair and turret in N. aisle, blocked priest's door in sanctuary, blocked squint in S. porch, carved font under tower.
Charlton Mackrell, 3 m. E. of Somerton, has a cruciform church with a central tower, in the piers of which are large foliated squints. The churchyard cross has figures carved on it, perhaps the symbols of the four Evangelists. Within the parish but nearer the village of Kingsdon is Lytes Cary House, situated a little distance from the Glastonbury and Ilchester road.
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