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After a cheerful evening with H., we persuaded him to accompany us back next day. He took out his dogs, and we had a good course after a hare, killing two jackals, and sending back the dogs by the sweeper. At Burgamma, the outwork, we stopped to tiffin on some cold fowl we had brought with us.
The queer burnt spots, called the "Devil's footsteps," had never attracted attention before this time, though there is no evidence that they had not existed previously, except that of the late Miss M., a "Goody," so called, or sweeper, who was positive on the subject, but had a strange horror of referring to an affair of which she was thought to know something.
In about three minutes, the Nawab was condemned to die, condemned to be hung by an outcast sweeper. But, in consideration of his exalted rank, they consented that he should wear his slippers, and ride to the place of execution, smoking his hookah; and Mungloo acknowledged the Sahib's magnanimity by proudly inclining his head, like a true Nawab, with a dignified "Acha!"
"Hans, move these tables into the smoking-room, and bring a sweeper to take these marks off the carpet and one moment, Hans " Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama. "Tell mother and Miss Laura to come here at once. "Very good, Miss Jose." She turned to Meg.
Lee of the Memorial Mission in Calcutta tells how one day when a dead cat had to be moved from her yard her sweeper proudly pulled himself up and assured her that, though the lowest among all servants, he was still too high to touch the body of a dead animal!
The room has no corners to gather dirt, wall meets floor with a gentle curve, and the apartment could be swept out effectually by a few strokes of a mechanical sweeper. The door frames and window frames are of metal, rounded and impervious to draught.
John; he hurried to the sweeper, laid his hand on his patchwork coat, and said breathlessly, "You see that coach turning into the square? Follow it, find out where it sets down. There's a sovereign for you; another if you succeed. Call and tell me your success. Number Curzon Street! Off, like a shot!" The sweeper nodded and grinned; it was possibly not his first commission of a similar kind.
I was so scared I bit her hand and she screamed and let go and I ran and locked myself in the bathroom because I knew she would hurt me bad if I didn't. I stayed there all day long and I could hear mommy running the sweeper downstairs and I couldn't see why she wanted to hurt me so much just because I let Bobby come in before she told me I could.
No. 2 is the Morning Sweeper. This is rather a knowing subject, one, at least, who is capable of drawing an inference from certain facts.
The young rider lightly swung himself from his sleek, high-bred gray at the door of one of the clubs in St. James's Street, patted his horse's neck, chucked the rein to the sweeper, and sauntered into the house, whistling musically, if not from want of thought, certainly from want of care.
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