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"I was forced to swim. If you will kindly open the gate and guide me to the street, I shall be much obliged to you." The gate swung outward, and in a moment Maurice was on dry land, or the next thing to it, which was the boat-dock. "Thank you," he said. "O! And you might have been drowned," compassion lighting her beautiful eyes. "Sit down on the bench, Monsieur, for you must be weak.
Not much choice is there, the only available spot being at the inner end of the cove. There a niche in the rocky beach forms a sort of natural boat-dock, large enough to admit the gig to moorings. And on the shore adjacent is the only patch of bare ground visible; at all other points the trees grow to the water's edge, with overhanging branches.
"And then the icemen come with their wagons, get the ice and bring it to us," finished Mab. "I've seen them." "That's right, little lady!" said the foreman with a laugh. And sometimes ice comes to the city by a boat, instead of in freight cars, and the men with wagons go down to the boat-dock to get the cold, frozen cakes.
Brown, "and when we go back home, well, I can find something for him to do at the boat-dock, perhaps that is, if he doesn't want to go back to the city." While Tom was doing the dishes Bunny and Sue had gone off into the wood a little way, to where they had made for themselves a little play-house of branches of trees, stuck in the ground.
And my, how Bunny and Sue were kissed and cuddled by their mother and Aunt Lu when Uncle Tad brought them back! "I was beginning to be afraid," said Mrs. Brown, "that you had gone down to the boat-dock, after I told you not to, and I was going to have your father and Bunker Blue look for you." "We didn't mean to get locked in. Mother," explained Bunny. "It was the wind."
Almost at once a moving object met her frightened gaze. It was a figure all in white which seemed to float down the lane between the tents and out upon the nearest boat-dock. Afterward Jennie declared she could have suffered one of these spirit-looking manifestations in silence. She crammed the strings of her frilled nightcap between her teeth as a stopper!
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