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"Dear, dear mother!" said Mary to herself. "There never was any one like her for remembering other folk. What rare sausages she used to make! Home things have a smack with 'em, no bought things can ever have. Set them up with their sausages! I've a notion if Mrs. Jenkins had ever tasted mother's she'd have no fancy for them town-made things Fanny took in just now."
Percy Noakes was a law student, inhabiting a set of chambers on the fourth floor, in one of those houses in Gray’s-inn-square which command an extensive view of the gardens, and their usual adjuncts—flaunting nursery-maids, and town-made children, with parenthetical legs. Mr.
For a time Amrei, in a dreamy, forgetful way, stood gazing at the lights on the heads of the graves, watching the flame consume the wax and the wick grow blacker, and blacker, until at last the light was quite burnt out. In the crowd a man, wearing handsome, town-made clothes and with a ribbon in his button-hole, was moving about here and there.
He is facetiously understood to entertain a passion for a lady at a cigar-shop in the neighbourhood of Chancery Lane and for her sake to have broken off a contract with another lady, to whom he had been engaged some years. He is a town-made article, of small stature and weazen features, but may be perceived from a considerable distance by means of his very tall hat.
At the end of the street, they found Donal waiting them without greatcoat or muffler, the picture of such health as suffices to its own warmth, not a mark of the midnight student about him, and looking very different, in town-made clothes, from the Donal of the mirror.
Now Inger had no more things to show. But when she had packed them all up again, she sat there still; and the way she sat, he could see her legs, could see her red-bordered stockings. "H'm," said he. "Those'll be town-made things, I doubt?" "'Tis wool was bought in the town, but I knitted them myself. They're ever so long right up above the knee look...."
These were the occasion of a good deal of derisive comment. One man sang out to a friend across the street "Say, Jim, them looks like town-made legs and country made trousers, eh?" Joe's limp, also, was the subject of ribaldry. On the whole we must have been a strange looking pair.
Mary looked more beautiful than ever, in her new town-made clothes, and Christina was very proud of her as they went about the village together. The practice for the Presbyterian Church's first of July picnic was in full swing, and as there were no Methodists helping this year, the Presbyterians had to do double duty.
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