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Not the second mate! Such a nice man, always pottering about, always ready to answer questions, always interested in everything, always and forever asking questions himself, wanting to know everything about themselves and their home and their plans for the future. And he had been specially interested in the Colonel where he was going and what he was going to do.
He had no great ambitions, no patronage, no ties except a far-off brother who was an upstart general of that most upstart Emperor, Napoleon. One day while the priest was pottering in his little garden, as Provençal Curés love to dig and work, a letter was handed him, marked "thirty sous of postage due." He was outraged.
Paul was thankful for her sake at last to be in a house with a long garden that went down to a field. Every morning after breakfast she went out and was happy pottering about in it. And it was true, she knew every weed and blade. Everybody turned up for the walk. Food was packed, and they set off, a merry, delighted party.
The heavy boughs of the mulberry-tree across the road drooped over the wall and offered their last ripe fruits to whomsoever would pick them. On the other side of the wall the rich merchant Hans he who married the nurse-maid was pottering about his garden. He never came out, and the rumor ran that he was held a prisoner by his wife and her kin.
Mallory appeared serenely unconscious of any incongruity in the fact of a man whose clothes breathed Savile Row and whose linen was immaculate as only that of the Londoner determinedly emergent from the grime of the city ever is, pottering about in the tiny kitchen, and brooding over the blackly obstinate kettle.
That red-bodied funereal- looking two-horse-coach, crawling at a snail's pace, belongs to his Excellency the Cardinal, whom Papal etiquette forbids to walk on foot within the city, and whom you can see a little further on pottering feebly along the road in his violet stockings, supported by his clerical secretary, and followed at a respectful distance by his two attendant footmen with their threadbare liveries.
Temple. "These certainly are no ordinary thieves, but desperate men." Tom had re-entered the power house and was pottering around the machinery.
There were plenty of books, old and new, in Bessie's room, magazines and reviews, but they did not come about the house much, unless any of the Rockstone cousins or the younger generation were staying there, or her brother David had come for a rest of mind and body. Between housekeeping, gardening, parish work, and pottering, Mrs.
He was pottering about the house one afternoon, having ordered me to keep at his heels for company, he was a man who hated to be left one minute alone, when his eye fell on it. "H'm! Sheraton!" he remarked. "Fine bit of inlay," he went on: "good work, all of it. I know the sort. There's a secret drawer in there somewhere."
Sometimes the quartermaster-sergeant and two or three other non-commissioned officers were seen pottering about it. Now and again Captain Demeré stood at the door and looked in. One day it chanced that Hamish, who had secured two tongues, desiring to offer them as a small tribute, came up close to him, in his deft, noiseless deerskin buskins, before Captain Demeré was aware.
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