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Someone moved from the window, and a minute or two later there was the sound of the passage door as it came unstuck, then the latch of the outside door clicked and a tall white-bearded peasant, with a sheepskin coat thrown over his white holiday shirt, pushed his way out holding the door firmly against the wind, followed by a lad in a red shirt and high leather boots.
"Th' shtore wuz clost by, an' we had a good shtart; but th' thing that wuz afther us wuz thravelin' loight an' in foorty-fut leps. "'Twuz a good race, an' wan Oi wanted to win; but, owin' to th' unyversal willin'ness av th' crowd to get into th' shtore, we plugged up th' dureway, an' befoor we c'd get unstuck th' thing wuz onto us, gibberin' an' jabberin' an' screamin' an' laughin' all to wunst.
'Tell me the symptoms, and I'll draw my own inferences, Johnnie. 'Symptoms! The girl was rank poisoned with Najdolene. Ramping, stamping possession. Gad, I thought she'd have the chandelier down. 'Mine came unstuck too, and he has the physique of a bull, said Gilbert. 'What delusions had yours? 'Faces faces with mildew on them. In any other walk of life we'd call it the Horrors.
First, the maid-servant who had been stuck, unstuck herself and dragged herself to her mistress; she told her that her outraged lord knew nothing, and that before giving up the ghost she would comfort her dear mistress by assuring her that she could have perfect confidence in her sister, who was laundress in the hotel, and was willing to let herself be chopped up as small as sausage-meat to please Madame.
"The next one that came and never a word from him made me sure so, I thought to myself, I'll make certain, and I opened the bag myself with my key for a few mornings I came down early before him on purpose and soon I sees another gold crown and great, sprawly writin'. The kettle was singing. It took me no time to get the gum unstuck, and well there! My dear, you never did! I blush to think of it.
The latter, who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, and could not now be unstuck, looked the girl up and down inquiringly, with her hands on the chair-arms. Such arrangements as the one Elizabeth proposed were not uncommon in country villages; but, though Casterbridge was old-fashioned, the custom was well-nigh obsolete here.
It can't go on! He shook as he spoke, and the chair creaked. 'My dear fellow, said the doctor, 'when you're older you'll know what burdens the best of us carry. A fox to every Spartan. 'That doesn't help me. I can't! I can't! cried Conroy, and burst into tears. 'Don't apologise, said Gilbert, when the paroxysm ended. 'I'm used to people coming a little unstuck in this room.
"Did you shoot when you saw Jack o' Judgment?" said the other sullenly. "It is no good your telling me what I ought to do." "Maybe it isn't," said the colonel. "Well, there's nothing to do now, anyway. The girl's gone, and all your fine plans have come unstuck." "They weren't my plans," said Pinto indignantly, "it was your scheme throughout."
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