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All around home it's blue awful blue in July around Swampscott and Marblehead and Nahant, and around the islands. I've swam there lots. Then our home bruck up and we went to board in Boston." He snapped off a flower in reach of his long arm. Suddenly all dreaminess left him. "I wonder if you'll be settin' the colonel's table when I come back?" he said. Miss Stone was at a loss.
"The property's quite worth three and a half million," announced Courtney decisively, watching the face of Morton Washer as that calm player stared at the colonel's chips. "I'm willing to take a million of the stock." "I'll take a million; more if need be," offered Washer. "I've been wanting in on that for some time. Colonel, what have you got?" "Five cards," replied the colonel.
Nicholson had judged himself the better advocate, and having obtained the Colonel's reluctant permission, he had at once started for the royal palace. But his progress had been painfully slow, and he had made no effort to hurry.
The little eyes receded, and he waited a moment, seemingly to prolong a physical delight in the excitement and suffering of a splendid creature. The girl was breathing fast and deep. "I cal'late you despise me, don't you?" he went on, as if that, too, gave him pleasure. "But I tell you the Colonel's a beggar but for me. Go and ask him if I'm lying.
The Indian canoe on the rippled surface of the lake, the tall, stiff, yet beautiful, trees that crept down to the water's edge, the furrowed snow peaks in the background, stirred the girl's pulse as she thought of one who even then perhaps was wandering about in that wild country. She expressed her admiration of the painting, and then rather hesitatingly mentioned the Colonel's nephew.
"Poor boy!" said Philippe to his mother, "we mustn't plague him; let him do as he likes." To his mother's eyes the colonel's contempt was a mark of fraternal affection. "Philippe will always love and protect his brother," she thought to herself.
When I spoke to him on the subject, he asked me if I thought 'English ladies of condition gave empty hands in marriage? I don't know how it is, my dear Miles, but I always fancied that the Mertons had nothing but the Colonel's salary to live on."
Thar's mighty few mysteries he ain't authorised to eloocidate. An' from time to time, accordin' as the Colonel's more or less in licker, he enlightens Wolfville on a multitoode of topics. Which the Colonel is a profound eddicational innocence; that's whatever!
"If you'll tell me the whole story, I shall be able to advise" "Oh, you will know it all ere long. Soldier," she said to the man who had answered her former questions, "is there any lady in the barrack the wife of one of the officers?" "There's our colonel, ma'am at least the colonel's wife, ma'am; she's inspecting the regiments baggage in the inner court"
Some of the younger men laughed, and it is possible that had their leader shown any sign of faltering, the Colonel's sarcastic disapproval would even then have induced them to abandon the scheme. Most of the men of Carrington had, however, made up their minds, and several in succession explained in deferent but determined fashion why they considered it necessary to support Lyle.
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