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So the canoe was hauled up on the float and left there, and a general chat followed. At noon, Dr. Bentley joined the young people, talking with them pleasantly, after which he led the way to the hotel. There, in a little private dining room, the boys met Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Meade. The luncheon was soon after served.
Ye're welcome to the village, and good sport ye can promise yerselves if ye'll go the right way about it." "Then we must hope," put in a second of the students, "that some of you who know will not be above giving us a word of advice." "The Lord forbid," ejaculated old Bentley in a most serious tone. "And the very best spot in the country is the spot we were talkin' of as ye came along.
Each of the girls carried the Gridley High School colors to wave during the expected triumphs of the afternoon. "I'm glad you're playing today," Laura almost whispered to young Prescott. "Why?" smiled Dick "Why, I believe you're one of those fortunate people who always carry their mascot with them," rejoined Miss Bentley earnestly.
For Bentley and Hatchard, alike with Rivington and Frazer, for Colburn and Nisbet, as well as Knight, Tilt, Tyas, Moxon, and Murray, I seem to be gratuitously pouring out in equal measure my versatile meditations; at this sign all customers may be suited; only, shop-lifters will be visited with the utmost rigour of that obnoxious monosyllable.
I should have to find another companion for her; and you know how difficult that would be. I'm worried quite enough as it is. A look of pain passed through his eyes, and Mrs. Bentley wondered what he he could mean. 'No, he said, taking her hands, 'we are good friends are we not? Do me this service. Stay with me until I finish this play; then, if things do not mend, go, if you like, but not now.
"If the thief took only a dozen tins," said Mrs. Bentley, "there is food enough left so that we needn't worry about immediate famine. And we have two cars, either one of which may be despatched to bring further supplies." "Tag is really going to move away from here, then," decided Dick thoughtfully. "Why do you say that?" asked Dr. Bentley.
Slade only works through one or two others who arrange for all the rest. Morrow is likely one of his right-hand men. He'd fix it for Carp without Slade's name even coming into it at all. Carp might have a good idea where the money came from but he'd draw it from Morrow and never get to the man behind. We'll never get anything on Bentley for that reason because he's known to draw Slade's pay."
Upon which I desired to know, considering my urgent necessities, what he thought might be acceptable this month. He looked westward and said, "I doubt we shall have a bit of bad weather. But if it hold up, I have already hired an author to write something against Dr. Bentley, which I am sure will turn to account."
We scarcely know whether to smile at its wit or to sigh at its wisdom. In the second edition of this novel there were here inserted two "characters" of "Fighting Attie" and "Gentleman George," omitted in the subsequent edition published by Mr. Bentley in the "Standard Novels."
His father, too, had not completed his twentieth year when he married his first wife, Anne Pinney, January 10, 1623. She died in 1627, apparently without any surviving children, and before the year was half-way through, on the 23rd of the following May, he was married a second time to Margaret Bentley.
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