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I wanted something to engage my thoughts, and from that day forward I became fonder and fonder of tulips." The evening was passed more pleasantly than Owen had anticipated. Mr Fluke, indeed, appeared to be an altogether different person to what he had seemed at his first interview with his young relative. "Boys want more sleep than old men," said Mr Fluke, pulling out his turnip-like watch.
And so was it with the shark struck by the axe of Ben Brace. As soon as the blow had been administered, the creature rolled over on its back; and after a fluke or two with its great forked tail, and a tremulous shivering through its body, it lay floating upon the water motionless as a log of wood. William was not so fortunate with his antagonist, though he had succeeded in keeping it off.
Vesty stood like marble; her shawl had escaped from her own throat, but was warm about the child that Gurdon had placed back on her breast. Captain Rafe ran to him, with the hand still stroking his pallid face: "That was Gurdon out there, making so near the sinking boat he would go only five " But Fluke heard never a word.
The apron was the leaden covering protecting the touch-hole, which, having unaccountably fallen off, had encountered the heavy foot of Tom Fluke, in his advance along the deck. The apron was at length replaced. Tom Fluke took the helm, and his companion departed, as he said, to have a comfortable snooze.
Railsford told him it was the reward of downright work; and he inclined to think such was the case himself. Arthur of course gibed at the idea. "All gammon," said he. "It's a lucky fluke for you, and I'm glad for your mater's sake. But I wouldn't say too much about it if I were you. It'll make the fellows grin." "Why should they grin at me any more than you?"
"Now how does the worm get into the sheep's liver? That is where the romance comes in. Let us see. "The cycle of transformation begins with the deposit of the eggs of the fluke in some shallow stream or ditch running through pasture lands.
"Oh, never thought it would turn up; trusted to a fluke." He whom the Punjaub knew as the Sword of the Evil One, but who held in polite society the title of Lord Kergenven, drank some hock slowly, and murmured as his sole quota to the conversation, very lazily and languidly: "Bet you he isn't dead at all." "The deuce you do?
Simon Fluke, Simon Fluke the London and County Directories may help us; if they cannot, we must advertise. It will be hard if we cannot rake up Simon Fluke or his heirs. To be sure, that book may have been given to his grandmother fifty years ago or more, and Simon Fluke may be dead." David carefully locked up the book.
I wanted very much indeed to keep that bill as a curiosity, but then the necessity of the time was on me, and I was not then a collector of curios. I had been only eighteen hours in Paris, and by a happy fluke the business was done over which I had counted upon spending a good part of the month. When I left London I was all at sea as to how I should carry out the objects of my visit to Paris.
On their arrival at the office, which had just before been opened, Mr Fluke handed Owen over to Mr Tarwig, who at once set him to work. There was plenty to do. Two clerks had recently left; their places had not been supplied. Owen was therefore kept hard at work the greater part of the day, and a short time only allowed him for eating the dinner which Kezia Crump had provided.
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