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Bat regarded his master as a man wholly devoted to horses, but often wondered why he was not more regular in his sojournings in Oxfordshire. Of any other portion of his master's life Bat knew nothing. Bat could give the address of his master's club in London, but he could give no other address.
It is not what you have done but what you might do. And I was going to tell you what the real handicap is. It is not the being-without-things, without advantages, which has restricted the fuller growth of such men as Bat Truxton and Brayley. It is something very different from that essentially different. It is the being-raised-a-rich-man's-son!
I clutched at it as it disappeared in the swirl of the rapids, and part of its wing was left in my hand. I was insensible when washed ashore, but the miserable remnant of my superb specimen was still intact; I now lay it before you." From a drawer he produced what seemed to me to be the upper portion of the wing of a large bat.
He took another pinch of snuff, and again forgot to put it to his nose, but brushed imaginary dust from his coat, as was his wont, and whispered to himself: "Why now, why now, I had not thought she was so much a woman. Flowers of the sea, but what eyes, what carriage, and what an air! I had not thought h'm blind old bat that I am I had not thought she was grown such a lady.
She went to dances, but though sometimes she toddled a bit, mostly she sat out or tucked in. During her three years as a waitress several customers looked at her with interest though without much principle. The president of a well-known bank, the proprietor of a folding-bed concern, a retired plumber, a Divinity student and a ticket-chopper. None of these made her bat an eyelash.
Thrown from it, the cloaked form flew like a great blue bat. It fell upon the flattened mound that had once been the proud crown of his city. A blue blot upon desolation the broken body of Cherkis lay. A black speck appeared high in the sky; grew fast the lammergeier. "I have left carrion for you after all!" cried Norhala.
He laughed. "I'll tell you, if you won't bat me for it. I'm your own nephew, near as I can make out." "Susan's son?" "Yes. Much as my life's worth, ain't it? Never saw anything like you an' mother when you get fightin', reg'lar old barnyard fowls." She gripped his shoulder tightly. Her voice had a sob in it, and a prayer. "You got anything for me?" He answered wonderingly.
"Can't; we are off to Pebbly Beach the second week in July. Our invalids need sea air. That one looks delicate, doesn't he?" asked Frank, giving Jack a slight rap with his bat as that young gentleman lay in his usual attitude admiring the blue hose and russet shoes which adorned his sturdy limbs. "Stop that, Captain!
Leave my dwelling! Pack off into the storm and see whether or not your silence will soothe the rain and the wind. Be off, I say!" "Yes, away with her!" echoed the Bat, flapping his leathery wings. And the two heartless creatures fell upon the poor little Dove and drove her out into the dark and stormy night. Poor little Dove!
"Hooray!" bawled Tommy from the wall on which he was perched, for Nan was a kindred spirit, and he foresaw "larks" in the future. "I can bat; let me play," said Nan, who could turn her hand to any thing, and did not mind hard knocks. "We ain't playing now, and our side beat without you." "I can beat you in running, any way," returned Nan, falling back on her strong point.
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