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"We priests of Rome, who have long lived at Rome, know much better what the New Testament is made of than the heretics and their theologians, not forgetting their Tinkers; though I confess some of the latter have occasionally surprised us for example, Bunyan. The New Testament is crowded with allusions to heathen customs, and with words connected with pagan sorcery.
Stung by the contemptuous derision contained in this language, Philip was stepping back in order to give himself proper room for a blow, when, on the very instant that he moved, Kate, uttering something between a howl and a yell, dashed her huge hands into his throat which was, as is usual with tinkers, without a cravat and in a moment a desperate and awful struggle took place between them.
Idly sat the Arabs on the benches outside the low-roofed coffee-houses; lazily worked the makers of ornaments in the bazaars; yawningly pounded the tinkers; greedily ate the children; the city was cloyed with ease.
"Are you glad that the boys scared us that night?" asked Polly one day not long after the "day of gifts" as the children called it. Molly weighed the subject. "When I think of the dear kitten and the salmon and the tinkers." "And the lobster." "Yes, and the sweet grass, then I am, but when I think of how dreadfully frightened we were, I'm not."
"I would have had the tailors and tinkers," said Hampstead, "and I would have had the ladies and gentlemen, too, if I could have got them to meet the tailors and tinkers; but I would not have had that young man who got me out into the hall just now." "Why, that was Crocker, the Post Office clerk," said Hautboy. "Why shouldn't we have a Post Office clerk as well as some one else?
The warm night will bring them all out in white dresses, and a white dress in the moonlight is an enchantment. Don't you like the feather boas reaching almost to the ground? I do. Lights-o'-love going about their business interest me extraordinarily, for they and the tinkers and gipsies are the last that remain of the old world when outlawry was common.
"Then ye are a tinker?" "Hmm!" was again the answer. It conveyed an impression of hesitant doubt, as if the speaker would have avoided, if he could, the responsibility of being anything at all, even a tinker. "That's grand," encouraged Patsy. "I like tinkers, and, what's more, I'm a bit of a vagabond myself.
By the way," Adrian continued, as if diverging to another topic, "you met two gentlemen of the road in your explorations yesterday, Magians. Now, if I were a magistrate of the county, like Sir Miles Papworth, my suspicions would light upon those gentlemen. A tinker and a ploughman, I think you said, Mr. Thompson. Not? Well, say two ploughmen." "More likely two tinkers," said Richard.
There is a strong sense of honor connected with such asseverations, and woe betide the one who swears falsely or tinkers with the truth. There are certain conspicuous characteristics which demand a more detailed consideration, and the first to be noted is the energy. The very sound of the word is indicative of the nervous force that dominates the life during these years.
When the dancing was at an end, she, as was her wont, questioned the men and the elder woman as to all she desired to know; and, learning from them that the men were likewise tinkers, she bid Ann hie to the kitchen and command that the house-keeper should bring together all broken pots and pans. But now, near by the wagon, was a noise heard of furious barking, and the pitiful cry of a child.
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