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Will you sign articles, as your mate has done, and join us, or shall I heave you over to follow your ship's company?" "Where is my ship?" asked Craddock. "Scuttled in the bay." "And the hands?" "In the bay, too." "Then I'm for the bay, also." "Hock him and heave him over," said Sharkey.
Bemis, publicly ingenuous, laid a light eager hand on his arm, and Mrs. Craddock answered a question in a decided manner.
'I met the owner in Rome last winter. It belongs to a Mrs. Craddock, and when I told her I was looking out for a house, she suggested that I should come and see this. 'Why doesn't she live in it herself? 'Oh, I don't know. It appears that she was passionately devoted to her husband, and he broke his neck in the hunting-field, so she couldn't bear to live here any more. Mrs.
Come now, Algitha, imagine yourself to be cut off from the work that supremely interests you, and thrown upon Craddock Dene without hope of respite, for the rest of your days. Don't you think you too might be tempted to try experiments with a power whose strength you had found to be almost irresistible?" "Perhaps I should," Algitha admitted.
His wife's mother objected to it and moved away on account of it. "That's a detail," said Craddock. There are details and details. The importance of any one of them depends on circumstances. Craddock had all the qualities and attributes requisite to make him a son-in-law to the liking of his mother-in-law lack of money.
"I'm not a clairvoyant, or whatever else you call those people who pretend to read other people's thoughts." "Sure, then, I'll tell you," she said, laughing at his quaint manner, "I'm going to see Mrs Craddock." "I'm just as much in the dark as ever," he retorted. "Who the dickens is the woman, eh?" Nell saved her aunt the trouble of answering.
Another two cable lengths and we have them." "They are edging away," said the boatswain. "I think they smell us." "That's soon set right," said Sharkey, turning his filmy eyes upon Craddock. "Stand there, you right there, where they can recognise you, with your hand on the guy, and wave your hat to them. Quick, or your brains will be over your coat. Put an inch of your knife into him, Ned.
"Well, well, Nancy!" she exclaimed, as she seated herself upon a bench by the door and began to fan herself with a corner of a snowy kerchief that crossed her ample bosom. "Looks like you have begun sawing and nailing at the Craddock family estate pretty early in the action though it's none too soon, and mighty glad I am to see you do it while there is still a little odd lumber left.
When they met at Craddock Place and elsewhere, Hadria suffered miseries of anxiety. She was terrified lest he should do or say something in bad taste, and that she would see her own impression confirmed on the faces of others. She put it to herself that she was afraid people would not understand him as she did.
I really don't remember what her real name was." This was a judicious falsehood. "Well, I'm sorry that you ever made love to actresses. I'm afraid I can't think as much of you after knowing " "After knowing that the first sight of you drove the memory of all actresses and other women in the world out of my head," cried Craddock, with a merry fervour that made his speech irresistible.
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