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They then sat together near five minutes without opening their mouths to each other. At last Mrs. James said, "Pray, sir, who was that masque with you in the dress of a shepherdess? How could you expose yourself by walking with such a trollop in public; for certainly no woman of any figure would appear there in such a dress? You know, Mr.
Later: "The leaders are growing stubborn they swear they can carry it, but it is now almost certain that they no longer have a majority!" After a day or two of reluctant and ambiguous telegrams: "Public sentiment seems changing, a trifle in favor of the bill but only a trifle." And still later: "It is whispered that the Hon. Mr. Trollop has gone over to the pirates. It is probably a canard. Mr.
She even persuaded herself that his disappearance was the act of a justly offended man; and, as he belonged to a class of whose good sense she had a poor opinion, she was tormented with fears that he would do some desperate act drown himself, or go to sea; or, worst of all, marry some trollop. She became very anxious and unhappy.
Festus Clasby saw the wisps of hair hanging about the bony face and froth at the corners of her mouth. Vaguely he saw the working of the bones of her wasted neck, and below it a long V-shaped gleam of the yellow tanned breast, which she thumped with her fist. Afterwards the memory of this ugly old trollop remained with him.
But a minute later she was back, having done no more than set her pail down inside the bedroom door. "Oh, sure, Mrs. Beamish, and I can't do't!" she cried shrilly. "It's jus' like Andy Soakes's shop ... when they've bin quarterin' a sheep." "I'll QUARTER you, you lazy trollop, you!" cried Mrs. Beamish, rising to her aching legs again; and her day-old anxiety found vent in a hearty burst of temper.
"Here's a go. Who is Miss Dory? Some trollop, of course and she is dead, and old Miss, too. Who is old Miss? and who is Mandy Ann the Colonel is to buy? I'd laugh, rank Abolitionist as he is! And what will he do with a child? Crackers and niggers? What is a Cracker?" Peter had no opinion on that head.
"And something nice for me," the trollop added, "for I can assure you that I mean him to reward me for anything I may do for him." From that time the household of eighteen persons consisted of nineteen, and at first all went well. The clown was very humble, and tried not to be burdensome to them.
La Corriveau nodded her head in a sort of silent approval, and remarked, "She is free-handed enough! She gives what costs her nothing, and takes all she can get, and is, after all, a trollop, like the rest of us, Fanchon, who would be very good if there were neither men nor money nor fine clothes in the world, to tempt poor silly women."
"I always meet my engagements, of every kind, Miss Hawkins." "It is a quality which is rarer in the world than it has been, I believe. I wished to see you on business, Mr. Trollop." "I judged so. What can I do for you?" "You know my bill the Knobs University bill?" "Ah, I believe it is your bill. I had forgotten. Yes, I know the bill." "Well, would you mind telling me your opinion of it?"
He's a pretty-looking object to carry the name o' John Gourla'! My God, what a ke-o of my life I've made that auld trollop for my wife, that sumph for my son, and that dying lassie for my dochter! Was it I that bred him? That!" He leapt to his feet in devilish merriment. "Set out the spirits, Jenny!" he cried; "set out the spirits!
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