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"I've always believed that she liked him better than she cared to admit, even to herself." "I fancy he'll not let any grass grow under his feet, now that she's free," said Dr. Hazzard. "Think she'll have him?" "Why not? He has a much better position in England than Tarnowsy has here, and he's not after her money. I hate to say it, but Aline is a seeker after titles.
"He took a mean advantage of me in the presence of George Hazzard not an hour ago, and asked for a raise in wages on account of his wife's illness. It seems that you are an invalid." "I hope he hasn't forgotten the baby in his calculations." "He hasn't, you may be sure. He has named the baby after me." "How original!"
Can you imagine these expert, able-bodied men putting laths on a wall with screw-drivers? When Elsie Hazzard, painfully aware of my annoyance, asked the two noblemen why on earth they couldn't get up for breakfast, they coldly informed her that they were civilised human beings and not larks.
I have often since wondered that so great an easiness did not disgust him, or make me too cheap in his eyes, but my fate had so appointed it, that in his fears of the hazzard of the town, he had been some time looking out for a girl to take into keeping, and my person happening to hit his fancy, it was by one of those miracles reserved to love, that we struck the bargain in the instant, which we sealed by an exchange of kisses, that the hopes of a more uninterrupted enjoyment engaged him to content himself with.
"That's not what I mean, at all," snapped Captain Hazzard. "Was it moving or standing still?" "Oh, ah see what yo' mean, Captain Hazzard, no, sir, der was no circumlocution ob de objec', in fac', sah, it was standin' still." "For how long did you watch it?" "Wall, sah, it jes flash lak de wink ob an eye and den it was gone."
Whereupon it arises, that whensoever they that are adversaries, take the occasion to assayle, they do it factiously; and these others defend but cooly, so that their whole party altogether runs a hazzard.
The engineers' force had been busy for a week and in the engine-room all was ready for the start north, but another tedious wait occurred while they waited for the field-ice to commence its weary annual drift. At last, one morning in early December, Captain Barrington and Captain Hazzard gave the magic order: "Weigh anchor!" "Homeward bound!" shouted Ben Stubbs, racing forward like a boy.
"For instance, airships," was the quiet reply. "Airships," exclaimed Captain Barrington. "Then you think ?" "That we have some very undesirable neighbors at close quarters," rejoined Captain Hazzard. Although, as may be imagined, a closer watch than ever was kept during the period of darkness, nothing more was seen that winter of the mysterious light.
It showed him they were still some distance from the spot near which Captain Hazzard believed the Viking ship was imprisoned. After a hasty lunch, cooked on the stove, the aeroplane once more ascended and kept steadily on her course till nightfall.
A few weeks after Julia's long day of events with Artheris, with Carter Hazzard, and young Rosenthal, she chanced to awaken one Saturday morning to a pleasant, undefined sensation that life was sweet. She thought of Mr. Hazzard, whom she had seen twice since their first meeting, but not alone again.
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