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His dear mother! He had never forgotten the words with which she had shown him the sunset through the coppice down at old Withes Norton, when he was nine years old: "That is beauty, Jack! Do you feel it, darling?" He had not felt it at the time not he; a thick-headed, scampering youngster. Even when he first went to India he had had no eye for a sunset. The rising generation were different.
Consequently the few travellers between the two places waited until a train happened along or, if they were in a hurry, engaged a team as the reporter had done. Soon after noon the owner of Juniper, the stolen horse, accompanied by the thick-headed young farm hand from whom the animal had been taken, appeared at the jail in answer to the sheriff's request for his presence.
We did our best to make her comfortable by sacrificing half our clothes to keep her warm, but we might have saved ourselves the trouble, for she deserted us for the first bourgeois who came along. She was not a true comrade, but I will tell you all about her later on. "We had some trouble with the landlord, a thick-headed bourgeois who got some stupid idea into his head about overcrowding.
But when that is in a man, it will out. I entered the King's Arms meekly, and before I knew what I was doing I had been presented to three or four solid-thighed, thick-headed, stout-legginged farmers as "Our Lottie's intended." They laughed, and came near to shaking my hand off. I felt that if I backed out after that, I never could show my face in Eden Valley again. Then we proceeded to business.
Immediately after it occurred, one Matthews, a busy, thick-headed lout of a butcher, rode furiously off to Elm Park with the news. Mrs Arbuthnot, who daily looked to be confined, was walking with her husband upon the lawn in front of the house, when the great burly blockhead rode up, and blurted out that the rector had been thrown from his horse, and it was feared killed!
'You great oaf! cried Jeremy Stickles: 'you are rather more likely to know, I should think, than any one else in all the kingdoms. 'If I knew, I should not ask you. Jeremy Stickles, do try to be neither conceited nor thick-headed. 'I will when you are neither, answered Master Jeremy; 'but you occupy all the room, John. No one else can get in with you there. 'Very well then, let me out.
"Oh, no! not the resemblance to Mr. Pearson. I didn't mean that. The resemblance to his more famous namesake. Surely you notice it now." The captain shook his head. "I I'm afraid I'm thick-headed, ma'am," he admitted. "I'm out of soundin's." "But the nose, and his beard, and his manner. Don't they remind you of the English Dickens?" "O-oh!" Captain Elisha inspected the great man with interest.
An English husband might do very well, the interests of the firm might make such an arrangement desirable, such a mariage de convenance so I argued to myself might be quite compatible with with heaven only knows what delights of superterrestial romance, from which I, as being an English thick-headed lump of useful coarse mortality, was to be altogether debarred.
He told me that the burgomaster was a Catholic, a worthy man, well to do, but rather thick-headed; in short, a fine subject for a joke. The following morning M. Carli asked me to breakfast, and afterwards to dine with the burgomaster.
This last had been one of the friends of Madame de Maintenon when she was Madame Scarron. Montchevreuil was a very honest man, modest, brave, but thick-headed. His wife was a tall creature, meagre, and yellow, who laughed sillily, and showed long and ugly teeth; who was extremely devout, of a compassed mien, and who only wanted a broomstick to be a perfect witch.
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