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The fever had left him, and Randall McLean, very white and "peaked" looking, was sitting propped up in bed and enjoying the wine-jelly Mrs. Miller had brought with her own hands. She had hoped to find him in better spirits, and was distressed to see how downcast and listless he was. Just what evil spell had fallen upon the garrison Mrs. Miller could not explain.
You must know that the mortals would pay more for one of your statues than they would for a specimen of any modern sculptor's art; yes, even if yours were modelled in wine-jelly and the other fellow's in pure gold. So why repine?" "You'd feel the same way if poets did a similarly vulgar thing," retorted Phidias; "you know you would.
Recalling poor Jake Dodsley's fate Barber Sam discreetly did as he was bidden. As for Bill Merridew, he was shaking like a wine-jelly. The horses had come to a stand, and the passengers in the coach were wondering why a stop had been made so soon.
"How could I, Zay, if the little girl's mamma had forbidden it?" All her fortitude was gone. She burst into tears. She laid her head down on the sofa and sobbed. "Oh, oh! and they had fricasseed chicken, with Mary's nice toast under it; and you have sponge-cake and wine-jelly; and I haven't nuffin; there isn't one single butter cracker in the house!"
You do look pale, but that's all. Glad to see your pretty face isn't harmed. Why, I heard one whole side of it was about burned off. I've brought you some wine-jelly, my dear." "She had a lot yesterday, Pheeb did," said Olly, who was curled up with a geography in a corner of the room and furtively cutting Europe out of the maps. "She doesn't need any more." "Oh, but this is some of my own make.
He then retired in the blackest consternation, and his yellow granddaughter, the house-girl, brought in the wine-jelly. One thing is certain I must contrive some way to get Sam back and forth to me from The Briers in less time than it takes him to walk five miles.
"Nobody appreciates me; nobody realises or cares for my one great talent. I believe I'll go and drown myself." "Do," said Marian, "drown yourself in that tub of wine-jelly, for it will never stiffen. I can tell that by looking at it." "Bye, bye," said Patty, pushing Marian out of the dining-room, "run along now, and take a little nap like a good little girl.
Heinzelmann waited with unmoved official countenance for the signal to play on, for he was hardened against M. Knaak's effects. Then the quadrille was continued. And then there was an intermission. The second-girl came clinking through the door with a tea-tray of wine-jelly in glasses, and the cook followed in her wake with a cargo of raisin-cake.
She was what I should call a wine-jelly, plum-pudding prohibitionist, and she included tastes of port and fruit cordials as part of the sight-seeing to be done. You can be pretty at eighty, which is consoling to know. Grandmother, with a little curl over each ear and the pink born of these "tastes" proved it, and she wouldn't let us tease her about it either.
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