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Pickwick how they had all been down in a body to inspect the furniture and fittings-up of the house, which the young couple were to tenant, after the Christmas holidays; at which communication Bella and Trundle both coloured up, as red as the fat boy after the taproom fire; and the young lady with the black eyes and the fur round the boots, whispered something in Emily's ear, and then glanced archly at Mr.
Many an inn owes its survival to a square of canvas the head of a child, a copper pot, or stretch of dune; and more than one collector now boasts of a masterpiece which had hung for years on some taproom wall, a sure but silent witness of the poverty of a Franz Hals, Wouverman or Van der Helst. Each year had brought new additions to the impecunious group about Mynheer's table.
He had hopes of enlisting a trustier fellow at Riddlehurst, but he was disappointed; and while debating upon what to do, for he shrank from leaving two women to the conduct of that inflamed troughsnout, Brisby, despatched to Storling by an afterthought of Lady Dunstane's, rushed out of the Riddlehurst inn taproom, and relieved him of the charge of the mare.
My father often was saying that if he had not been narrowly eyed all his young life, first by his mother and then by his wife, he had little doubt but what he might have been engaged in dishonest practices sooner or later. A confident voice was doing some high talking in the taproom.
Meanwhile, the little restaurant was in an uproar. The host, a thin, pale man in an apron and a shabby embroidered cap, had suddenly appeared from the depths of the taproom, accompanied by his wife, a monstrous, red-faced creature clothed in a grey flannel frock.
She was absolutely mute for the rest of the evening, save when obliged to exchange a word or two with rustic company or in the taproom. Her features expressed uneasiness rather than mortification. The next day, after an early breakfast, Mr. Fouracres set forth to the town of Woodbury. He had the face of a man with a fixed idea, and looked more obstinate, more unintelligent than ever.
You go and fill the jug there with hot water in the kitchen, and I'll get some whisky from the taproom." Donald filled himself a glass with a generous proportion of spirit, and lit his pipe again. "I've a letter here, addressed to you," he said. He fumbled in his breast pocket, drew forth a leather case, and took from it one of the letters which Micah Ward had written.
This lower door was the only one used, It opened into the tavern, properly so called, which was a large taproom, full of tobacco smoke, furnished with tables, and low in the ceiling. Over it was a window on the first floor, to the iron bars of which was fastened and hung the sign of the inn. The principal door was barred and bolted, and always remained closed.
And quiet quiet to gloom, did the inn, so noisy overnight, seem by morning. The shutters partially closed to keep out the sun the taproom deserted the passage smelling of stale smoke an elderly dog, lazily snapping at the flies, at the foot of the staircase not a soul to be seen at the bar.
My groom I knew I could rely upon, for he always seemed to be the very soul of honour. I thought at first he might have been misled in some Bromley taproom, but afterwards found that it was all true he had heard it from the owner himself, in whom the public seemed to place confidence, for they laid very long odds against Dreadnought.
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