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We all know the itinerant umbrella mender, whose appearance in the neighbourhood of the farmhouse leads the good wife to look after her poultry and to see well to it that the watchdog is on the premises. But that gentleman is almost the only agency by which old umbrellas can be rescued from the dust heap. Side by side with our Boot Factory we shall have a great umbrella works.
The island, the mountain, and the river remain, preserving their original names to the present day, except that the river is now called the Mender, but, although various vestiges of ancient ruins are found scattered about the plain, no spot can be identified as the site of the city.
To be sure, if Austen Vane had been Timothy Smith, the Mender case might not have made quite so many ripples in the pond with which this story is concerned. Austen did what he thought was right. In the opinion of many of his father's friends whom he met from time to time he had made a good-sized stride towards ruin, and they did not hesitate to tell him so Mr.
She has a character such as I never thought to find in any mortal woman, strong, pure, tender, and sincere! ah, that sincerity of hers is like the very sunlight! so bright and warm, and clean of all ulterior motive! And measured by a worldly estimate only what is she? The daughter of a humble florist, herself a mere mender of lace, and laundress of fine ladies' linen!
"I think I have heard of people coming up from the ranks in favored England," was the dry rejoinder. "Oh, let's let her alone. She'll make her way with that high head of hers. Perhaps she will be President of some college yet." Then they went back to fun. At nine Miss Arran came in and dismissed them. Zay was thinking how solitary the girl must be. Oh, if her mother were not the general mender!
Sometimes, when she turned it so, the hole was nearly covered except that there was the frayed rent at the bottom still grinning maliciously up at the mender. "'Patch beside patch is neighborly, but patch upon patch is beggarly!" quoted Mrs. Jerry, at the moment forgetting that the girl could not understand.
"Your Excellencies may perhaps be able to remember an humble artizan, by name Hans Pfaall, and by occupation a mender of bellows, who, with three others, disappeared from Rotterdam, about five years ago, in a manner which must have been considered by all parties at once sudden, and extremely unaccountable.
That, despite Mr. Whistler and the Ten O'Clock seems really to have been the kind of thing that happened in Athens. Tomides was there, with his companions little Tomides, the mender of bad soles and intoxicated by the grand poetry; understanding it, and never finding it tedious; poetry they had had no opportunity to study in advance, they understood and appreciated wildly at first hearing.
The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no. "You are the fellow we want," said Defarge, in his ear; "you make these fools believe that it will last for ever. Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended." "Hey!" cried the mender of roads, reflectively; "that's true." "These fools know nothing.
Mother of God! they are both in the same boat!" He fixed his large eyes on Landless as he spoke, and his thick lips curled into a tigerish smile. Landless half rose, but Godwyn laid a detaining hand upon his arm. "Be still," he said in a low voice, "and let me manage this matter." Landless obeyed, and the mender of nets turned to the assembly, who by this time were looking very black.
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