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The rocks flew like hail. Everybody got their share, but Cap'n George got a big one in the middle of the back. That took his breath so all the way he could express his feelings was to reach out and give his new passenger half a dozen kicks. But just as soon as he could he spoke, all right enough. "'You mis'rable four-eyed shrimp! he says.
Instantly a shrill protest of horror went up from the women. This was not what they had expected. "What! leave the mis'rable boy to his fate!" There followed a storm of hisses from them absolutely unreasonable, of course. The old fellow turned to retire, with hanging head. At the moment a girl, flushed, blowzed, breathless, broke through the skirt of the mob and barred his retreat.
All I got to do is to think of something re'l mis'rable like the time our old brahma hen, Beauty, got bit by Esek Coe's dog, and ma had to saw her up. Then the tears'll squeeze right out, just as ea'sy!" Louise thought laughter would overcome her "just as easy" despite the day and place. She knew a hearty burst of laughter in the church edifice would amaze and shock the lingering congregation.
But the great attraction and ornament wos the dummies, which this here young hairdresser wos constantly a runnin' out in the road to look at, and constantly a runnin' in again to touch up and polish; in short, he wos so proud on 'em, that ven Sunday come, he wos always wretched and mis'rable to think they wos behind the shutters, and looked anxiously for Monday on that account.
"Well," said Lynn, looking across at "Tenby," "I'm glad it's going to be lived in at last, poor thing. It makes me quite mis'rable to see it standing there in the sun with its eyes shut up tight as if it wanted to wake up on'y it darerunt." "Like the Sleeping Beauty," said Pauline. Lynn, in whose composition had run from babyhood a marked vein of poetry, shook her hair back from her face.
"Really, Aunt Lucy, you needn't mind Habbakuk and Funnel they are so very well behaved. I have been debillerating whether I ought to bring in Pompey, because his hair streams out but he did look so cold and mis'rable, I thought you wouldn't objec'." At this moment a housemaid came up to say there were visitors in the drawing-room.
Hows'ever, there is law for us women, mis'rable creeturs as they'd make us, if they could; and that your master will find out, young man, to his cost, afore he's six months older. At this consolatory reflection, Mrs. Cluppins bridled up, and smiled at Mrs. Sanders, who smiled back again. 'The action's going on, and no mistake, thought Sam, as Mrs. Bardell re-entered with the receipt.
And what an expansion that was, to be sure! when you take into account the display of white teeth and red gums by which it was accompanied. "Well, now, Quash," resumed Lawrence, "what did you do after that?" "Arter what, massa?" "After finding that slobbering and wringing your hands did no good." "Oh! arter dat, I not know what to do, an' den I tried to die I was so mis'rable. But I couldn't.
I tell you, Rayburn, I didn't know what a lonely an' mis'rable an' lost chump sort of a way I was in until I looked over there into that place where th' whole business ain't run by dead folks. An' what's more, Professor, that's the trail for us; for, right where it starts down, there's th' King's symbol an' th' arrow, all reg'lar, blazed on th' rock."
You sure to be cotched at last, and de whole affair'll bust up. You'll be tooked away, an' your fadder'll be t'rowed on de hooks or whacked to deaf. Oh! I's most mis'rable!" The poor creature seemed inclined to howl at this point, but she constrained herself and didn't. In the gloom of the cheerless Bagnio, Hugh Sommers found his wet blanket in Edouard Laronde.
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