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Updated: May 16, 2025
I've been 'is wife for twenty years, an' yer couldn't 'ave 'ad a better wife, an' I've bore 'im nine children, yet say nothin' of a miscarriage, an' I've got another comin', an' thet's 'ow 'e treats me! Nice 'usbind, ain't it? She looked at him scornfully, then again at the surrounders as if for their opinion.
Mary is so dull and prosaic. Too many of them about. One gets sick of the sound." "Is that intended for me by any chance?" asked Cecil in her most acid tones, whereupon the Major cried, "Oh! Put my foot in it that time, didn't I?" and burst into a long guffaw of laughter, which brought on him the eyes of the surrounders.
There was now a laugh amongst the surrounders, which evidently nettled the fellow, who forthwith thrust his hand into his pocket, and pulling out all his silver treasure, just contrived to place the value of the guinea on the table. "Them that finds wins, and them that can't find loses," interrupted Jack, lifting up a thimble, out of which rolled a pea.
For a moment she stood silent, contemplating Liza, while the surrounders looked on in breathless interest. 'Yer dirty little bitch, you! she said at last. 'Tike that! and with her open hand she gave her a sharp smack on the cheek. Liza started back with a cry and put her hand up to her face. 'An' tike thet! added Mrs. Blakeston, repeating the blow.
They fence themselves in with so many surrounders of magisterial definitions, conclusions, corollaries, propositions explicit and implicit, that there is no falling in with them; or if they do chance to be urged to a seeming non-plus, yet they find out so many evasions, that all the art of man can never bind them so fast, but that an easy distinction shall give them a starting-hole to escape the scandal of being baffled.
Riding through the villages round Seville on Sundays it delighted me to see little groups making a circle about the house doors, in the middle of which were dancing two girls in bright-coloured clothes, with roses in their hair. A man seated on a broken chair was twanging a guitar, the surrounders beat their hands in time and the dancers made music with their castanets.
'How I should cut out those dreary subalterns with their mess-room drolleries, how I should shame those tiresome cornets, whose only glitter is on their sabretaches! muttered he, as he surveyed himself in his courtly attire. 'It is all nonsense to say that the dress a man wears can only impress the surrounders.
The orator is not hampered by the studied words of a written part: he has the right of free speech, and he may retort upon his sibilant surrounders.
Indeed, to listen to him, it would seem that, whether from the salubrity of the air, the peaceful quietude of the spot, the watchful kindness and attention of the surrounders, or a certain general air an actual atmosphere of benevolence and contentment around there was no pleasure of life could equal the delight of being laid up at Kilgobbin.
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