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Power earnestly, "because it is sure to be crammed to the doors." "We can meet at half-seven," said Mr. M'Coy. "Righto!" said Mr. Cunningham. "Half-seven at M'Auley's be it!" There was a short silence. Mr. Kernan waited to see whether he would be taken into his friends' confidence. Then he asked: "What's in the wind?" "O, it's nothing," said Mr. Cunningham.
To her sails had been stitched gaudy ramping lions of scarlet saye, and from her mainyard, now dipping in the water, had hung the broad two-tailed pennant with the Virgin and Child embroidered upon it.... Then suddenly a voice about him seemed to be saying, "And a half-seven and a half-seven " and in a twink the picture in Abel Keeling's brain changed again.
"You should have your dinner in the middle of the day, like us," she answered, and added, decisively, "It's half-seven or never!" "All right," he exclaimed, stooping down carefully and putting his feet on a rung of the ladder. "I'll come for you then. I'll manage it somehow." He told his father that he did not want any dinner.
'And very suitable. Ye can try poalitics, too. Ye'd better be a Free-trader but convertit by Lloyd George. That's a common case, and ye'll need to be by-ordinar common ... If I was you, I would daunder about here for a bit, and no arrive at your hotel till after dark. Then ye can have your supper and gang to bed. The Muirtown train leaves at half-seven in the morning ... Na, ye can't come with me.
He was at home again, instructing his son, young Abel, in the casting of the lead from the skiff they had pulled out of the harbour. "And a half-seven!" the boy seemed to be calling. Abel Keeling's blackened lips muttered: "Excellently well cast, Abel, excellently well cast!" "And a half-seven and a half-seven seven seven "
"You're a terrible fella for coaxin'!" She moved towards the trap where the head of the ladder showed, and prepared to descend from the loft. "What time will I come for you?" he asked, following her. "Half-seven," she answered, going down the ladder. "I'll be well done my work then!" He stood above her, looking down through the trap. "We generally have dinner at half-past seven," he said.
I will spare you the palpitations which rent my heart during that journey to Paris and the little scene there, which marked the turning-point of my life. By half-seven I was home again, and Gaston found me, fresh and blooming, in my morning dress, sauntering about with a make-believe nonchalance.
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