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"I am by no means sure of that," Hallett said. "I am always slow in making up my mind about anything; and should never have thought of putting a wounded officer on my horse, and sending him off, while I remained to be cut to pieces.
So, when at that point of their conversation in the lantern room of the Gould's Bluffs light, Galusha, recognizing his helpless position and the alternative of buying the Hallett holdings or being exposed to Cousin Gussie as a sentimental and idiotic spendthrift and to Martha Phipps as a liar and criminal when Galusha, facing this alternative, stammered a willingness to go to Boston and see if he could not dispose of Jethro's stock as he had Martha's, the captain added an additional clause.
"Make haste, and be sure that the sticks are dry." "I'm not sure that I know a dry stick when I see it," whispered Maud Hallett to Julia; but instinct, as often happens, took the place of experience on this occasion, and Mrs. Gray found quite a respectable pile of fuel awaiting her when she came back with her kettle full of spring water.
Five months passed over Edward Hallett, in the dead calm of an existence agitated by neither hope nor fear. The calm was broken one evening by the sight of a seaman, drawing water from the spring which had brought his former companions to the island.
"What if they start them on us, Hallett?" enquired Grey, in the tone of one who merely seeks information. Hallett frowned slightly. "Hadn't thought of that. Of course if they insist on picking a quarrel in that way " "But I'm nearly sure they won't," cried Jack. "I caught Lucy pasting the leaves of my Delectus together," murmured Grey, looking at the ceiling.
We have certainly improved a lot in appearance, during the last fortnight; and I believe that it is due to the feeding, more than the rest." "It is due, no doubt, to both," Lisle said; "but certainly the feeding has had a good deal to do with it." "Those tins of soup," said Hallett, "have been really splendid.
He seems to be absolutely tireless, and always ready for anything. "Well, I shall turn in, now, and try to dream that I am on a feather bed, and have had supper of all sorts of dainties." "I would not do that, if I were you. It would be such a disappointment, when you woke up." "Well, perhaps it might be," Hallett said, despondently.
It doesn't seem to me, at present, a possibility that such a meal could fall to my lot. "Look at me, look at my wasted figure! I weighed nearly fourteen stone, when we started; I doubt whether I weigh ten, now." "All the better, Hallett. When I first saw you, on shore at Liverpool, I said to myself that you were as fat as a pig.
"Yes ah yes," he answered. "Yes ah quite so." "Humph! What is quite so? I want to know about that stock of the Wellmouth Development Company." "Yes.... Yes, certainly, I know." "That Captain um What's-his-name, the picturesque old lunatic with the whiskers Hallett, I mean made a statement that was, to say the least, surprising. I presume he was crazy.
The expedition pushed on, and arrived at Bekwai without having to fire a shot. The garrison there was formed up to receive and cheer them and, what was still more appreciated, a ration of fresh meat and another round of medical comforts were served out. "Well, Bullen," Hallett said, the next morning, "here we are again. I wonder how long we shall get to rest our wearied bodies."
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