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If by any chance a boat came round the point there would still be time to hail it. "We seem to be cut off," said Lady Ingleby. "We are cut off," replied Jim Airth, laconically. "Then I suppose we must have a boat," said Lady Ingleby. "An excellent suggestion," replied Jim Airth, drily, "if a boat were to be had.
"Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath, "that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin' out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all the airth like a string of inions."
She 'd go off to dances, an' leave Dixie to home tendin' cradle; but that wa'n't no hardship to him for he was 'bout as much wropped up in the child as he was in Fiddy. Wall, sir, 'bout a month ago she up 'n' disappeared off the face o' the airth 'thout sayin' a word or leavin' a letter.
Bub's manner showed that he felt his consequence much increased by his clerical outfit, and the benignant gravity of his face was edifying to behold. "Goodness gracious!" exclaimed the old lady; "what on airth you up to, you imp o' Satan? Can't you berhave in the minister's house?" and, seizing the urchin as he landed, she only ceased shaking him as the spectacles dropped to the floor.
Well, the fust time I went to lord's party, I thought it was another brag agin; I never see nothin' like it. Heavens and airth, I most jumpt out o' my skin. Where onder the sun, sais I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-superior galls as these.
"'Elder, says I, 'I thought when a man jined your sect, 'he could never "fall off agin," but I see you ain't no safer than other folks arter all. "'Come, says he, 'let me be, that's a good soul, it's bad enough, without being larfed at, that's a fact. I can't account for this caper, no how. "'It's very strange too, ain't it! What on airth got into the hoss to make him act so ugly.
Jim Airth read it; took one look at his watch; then jumped headlong into a passing taxicab. "Charing Cross!" he shouted to the chauffeur. "And a sovereign if you do it in five minutes." As the flag tinged down, and the taxi glided swiftly forward into the whirl of traffic, Jim Airth unfolded the telegram and read it again. It had been handed in at Shenstone at 2.15. Come to me at once. Myra.
Steam had come to supplant the white wings that had borne the old ships on their wide ocean ways. As Captain Jeb said, "the airth had taken to spouting up ile," and made the long whale hunts needless and unprofitable. But, though it had died to the busy world of commerce and trade, the quaint old island town had kept a charm all its own, that drew summer guests from far and near.
They revisited Horseshoe Cove at low water, and Jim Airth spent hours cutting the hurried niches into proper steps, so as to leave a staircase to the ledge, up which people, who chanced in future to be caught by the tide, might climb to safety. Myra sat on the beach and watched him, her eyes alight with tender memories; but she absolutely refused to mount again.
She sank back among the cushions and drawing a bowl of roses hastily toward her, buried her face in them, fearing again to meet the settled sadness of his eyes. Jim Airth sat down in the chair left vacant by Lord Ingleby and Peter. "Listen, dear," he said. "I need not ask you never to doubt my love. That would be absurd from me to you.
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