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So that we can put the money we get for the Electric Light Works into gas shares! This was such splendid news that they had another drink on the strength of it, and Didlum said that one of the first things they would have to do would be to totally abolish the Coal Dues, because they pressed so hard on the poor. The Deserter About the end of January, Slyme left Easton's.
He used to have what he called a 'party' two or three times a week with Elsie, Charley and Easton's baby as the guests. Sometimes, if Mrs Owen were not well, Elsie used to stay in with her after tea and do some housework while the boys went out to play, but more frequently the four children used to go together to the park to play or sail boats on the lake.
The half-door stood open and Easton's car was outside. She stood in the middle of the hall and relieved Easton of the gloves and fan he was carrying. "Good-night," she said, "I am so tired." "My wonderful goddess," he said. She yielded herself to his accustomed embrace, then started, stared, and wrenched herself out of his arms.
Overhead, across the room, about eighteen inches down from the ceiling, were stretched several cords upon which were drying a number of linen or calico undergarments, a coloured shirt, and Easton's white apron and jacket. On the back of a chair at one side of the fire more clothes were drying. At the other side on the floor was a wicker cradle in which a baby was sleeping.
Crass who had engaged the brakes had arranged with the drivers that the cortege should pass through the street where he and Easton lived, and as they went by Mrs Crass was standing at the door with the two young men lodgers, who waved their handkerchiefs and shouted greetings. A little further on Mrs Linden and Easton's wife were standing at the door to see them go by.
Although he had always joined to a certain extent in the chaff of his school-fellows at Easton's care about his dress and little peculiarities of manner, he had never shared in Skinner's prejudices against him, and always said that he could do anything well that he chose to turn his hand to, and had appreciated his readiness to do a kindness to anyone who really needed it.
They are going to march on Louisiana and conquer it for the French Republic, for Liberty, Equality the Rights of Man, anything you like." "On Louisiana!" I repeated; "what has the Federal government been doing?" The Captain winked at me and sat down. "The Federal government is supine, a laughing-stock so our friends the Jacobins say, who have been shouting at Mr. Easton's tavern all winter.
No better time could be chosen by the naturalist, for the tide will be at its lowest ebb. Descending Bath Road, the beautiful crescent lies before us on the right, Easton's Pond, with its back-ground of farms, upon the left.
At first, she used to address him as 'Mr' but after a time she fell naturally into Easton's practice of calling him by his first name. As for the baby, he made no secret of his affection for the lodger, who nursed and played with him for hours at a stretch. 'I'll serve your dinner now, Alf, said Ruth when she had finished scrubbing the floor, 'but I'll wait for mine for a little while.
Ruth especially would often have been very lonely if he had not been there, for it had lately become Easton's custom to spend a few evenings every week with Crass at the Cricketers. When at home Slyme passed his time playing a mandolin or making fretwork photo frames.
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