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Perhaps it was the smoking supper that proved too much for the hungry fisher-boy, or perhaps Ned's conscience still troubled him, but the boy was unusually silent. Goody, try as she might, could get nothing out of him. 'I'm off again, granny, soon's ever the moon's up, Ned at length broke silence to say, when his supper was finished. 'Are ye, lad? Well, good luck to 'ee!
"Well, if you will come to the castle, I will try to teach you to read at all events," she answered. "I should like such a pupil, for I am sure you would learn rapidly." "And I must help you, Lady Sophy," said the little girl, who had been the first to draw attention to Dermot. "I am sure I should teach him to read very quickly, should I not, little fisher-boy?
As the lamp fell on their countenances, the contrast between the fair, delicate-looking child and the big, strongly-built fisher-boy, with his well-bronzed, broad and honest face, would not have failed to be remarked by a stranger entering the room.
The fisher-boy had assumed an abrupt and vast importance in her life. "Gaspare," she said, "you know me pretty well by this time, don't you?" "Know you, Signora! Of course I know you!" He gazed at her, then added, "Who should know you, Signora, if I do not?" "That is just what I mean, Gaspare. I wonder I wonder " She broke off.
The former continued his efforts unsuccessfully with the sending key for nearly half an hour, hearing no sound from his friend in the meantime. Then he was about to take the receivers from his ears and go in search of the fisher-boy to find out what success he had had, when the latter appeared on the scene with a look in his face that startled the youth at the radio table.
The picture, which was nothing but an idealisation of the vignette upon the title-page of my father's book the vignette taken from the photograph of Winnie, my brother Frank, and one of my fisher-boy playmates brought back upon me all! Sinfi came to me. 'What is it, brother? said she. 'Sinfi, I cried, 'what was that saying of your mother's about fathers and children?
"Confess that if it had been that fisher-boy, you would not be here now!" and he kept tight the arm that she was going to take away. Her face was in a flame. "Well, well; and if- if it wasn't, you need not make such a fuss about it." "Not when it is the first ray of hope you have afforded me, for the only joy of my life?" "I never meant to afford " "But you could not help." "Oh, don't!
The one is as sharp and as bright as can be; the other is simply a solidly-built fisher-boy who will, I have no doubt, make a good sailor, but is not likely to set the Thames on fire.” “Do you know, sir, Mr.
On a little sandy ridge sit a brown fisher-boy and fisher-girl, immortal as the sea, cliffs, and clouds which are a setting or frame for them. The strength of the argument in favour of a philosophy or religion is proportionate to the applicability of the philosophy or religion to life. If in all situations we find it ready, it is true.
Away out on the bay was a schooner tacking against the wind, while just rounding Rocky Point was a trim little yacht with all sail set, flying straight in for Killamet beach. "How pretty she rides!" he thought, and wondered, boy-like, if when he was a big man he would sail his own craft, the end and aim of every fisher-boy along the Atlantic coast.
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