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Joshua never liked saying goodbye, and did it so gruffly that it might have sounded sulky to the ear of a stranger, but Lilac knew better. She had a "goodish step" before her, as she called it to herself, and if she were to get back to the farm before dusk she must make haste.
"Goodish thirty feet o' water in that there!" surmised Pickard. "It's none safe for childer to play about theer's nowt to protect 'em. Next time I see Mestur Shepherd I shall mak' it my business to tell him so; he owt either to drain that watter off or put a fence around it." "Is Mr. Shepherd the property-owner?" asked Byner. "Aye! it's all his, this land," answered Pickard.
It's a goodish pull over this 'ere bridge." "'With all my heart, says Jim; and in they go. "There you see the advantage of being on the highroad.
"Oh, well, if you come to that there's pretty-good, and rather-bad, and a host of other houses between these, such as goodish and baddish, but not one of them can be a half-way house." "Oh yes, one of them can must be." "Which one, you little argumentative creature?" asked Shank. "Why, middling-good of course."
There are frills about the man, fine laces, cloth; a goodish yellow wig on him, for one thing: their Slavonic dialect, too fatally intelligible by the pantomime accompanying it, forces sage Maupertuis from his tree or standpoint; the big red face flurried into scarlet, I can fancy; or scarlet and ashy-white mixed; and Let us draw a veil over it!
"I've lived a goodish long time in the world," said this best and dearest of all old servants "but the like of this, I never did expect to see. There stands the house, and here stands Mr. Franklin Blake and, Damme, if one of them isn't turning his back on the other, and going to sleep in a lodging!" He led the way out, wagging his head and growling ominously.
"Say," put in another, "what did the fellow mean by saying the ark was full? That's funny, ain't it? Who's he got inside, anyway?" "Oh, he ain't got nobody," said another. "Yes, he has. I seen a goodish lot through the portholes. He's got somebody, sure." "A lot of fools like himself, most likely." "Well, if he's a fool, and they's fools, what are we, I'd like to know?
"It may be that this sudden prospect of wealth, or rather of a goodish income that would enable me to keep up a decent establishment in town, and a bit of a place somewhere in the hunting country, has upset my equilibrium, but it occurred to me this morning as I was splashing through the mud I had to go out to the ranch in fact it came over me with such a rush that I felt like Don Quixote, and every landmark looked like a windmill what is England to-day but the very apex of civilization?
Come, Jake, you have got the quietest voice. The poor man is pretty well knocked up and needs rest. I brought him here." "Has he got much?" the sentence was completed by Jake significantly slapping his pocket. "A goodish lot. But come, sit down and out wi' the news. Something must be wrong." "Wall, I guess that somethin' is wrong. Everything's wrong, as far as I can see.
"It's a goodish step, but you're rested now, maybe, and it's no use risking missing the 'bus at Glenbury, and having to walk it after all." A very tired Diana, and an equally weary Wendy arrived at the school just when Miss Todd was getting absolutely desperate about their absence.
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