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"Why, Jasper's," said Polly and Ben together; Joel and David coming in as echoes. "You see," said Phronsie distinctly, "that Jasper and dear Grandpapa sent the beautiful things to us." "Mrs. Pepper and Polly and Ben had gotten the Tree ready before," said Jasper hastily. "Oh! didn't I want to be there!" he added. "Yes; Polly almost cried because you couldn't be," said Joel in among the branches.
And this trumpery," pointing to the jewelled gift still lying in Jasper's hand, "is utterly unfit for a schoolgirl. You know that yourself, Jasper." "But Polly was kind to him," began Jasper, again. "Kind to him!" snorted his father, "don't I know that? Of course she was. Polly Pepper would be kind to any one.
"Makin' a cock-shy of him," replies the hideous small boy. "Give me those stones in your hand." "Yes, I'll give 'em you down your throat, if you come a ketchin' hold of me," says the small boy, shaking himself loose from Jasper's touch, and backing. "I'll smash your eye if you don't look out!" "What has the man done to you?" "He won't go home." "What is that to you?"
The two men had gone off to Jasper's study, and she was alone with her uncle. "When I lunched with you the other day at the Savoy," he said, "I spoke to you about your marriage, and I asked you to defer any action for a fortnight." She nodded. "I was coming down to see you on that very matter," she said.
Cristobal, eager to see what the Yule-log might have in store for him, rushed out of the church with careless speed, stumbling over a boy who stood in his way, the haughty, insolent Jasper. Jasper's beautiful Christmas-candle was cracked in twenty pieces by his fall.
'But what of Jasper's friendship with Mrs Edmund Yule and the Reardons? Mightn't it be a little awkward? 'Oh, I don't think so, unless he himself felt it so. There would be no need to mention that, I should say. And, really, it would be so much better if those estrangements came to an end.
Once waited on a man called Carrington and he wasn't even civil." "Sit down," I said, laughing. "This is my sister, and at least we can offer you a meal, but you are too late to sell our stock. I have just returned from shipping Jasper's as well as my own under charge of a new partner of Gardner's." Heysham looked puzzled. "It's a reliable firm almost as good as our own," he said.
"Well, for my part," said Pathfinder, drawing a heavy sigh, "I shall cling to the hope of Jasper's innocence, and recommend plain dealing, by asking the lad himself, without further delay, whether he is or is not a traitor. I'll put Jasper Western against all the presentiments and circumstances in the colony." "That will never do," rejoined the Sergeant.
Could the Colonel see her, and hear her own tale? that Alban entertained a strong suspicion that no such girl was in existence; that she was a pure fiction and myth; or that, if Jasper were compelled to produce some petticoated fair, she would be an artful baggage hired for the occasion. Poole waited Jasper's next visit with impatience and sanguine delight.
As I went up to bed that night, I thought Jasper's chances poor indeed. As for Tish, I endeavored to speak a few word of remonstrance to her, but she opened her Bible and began to read the lesson for the day and I was obliged to beat a retreat. It was that night that Aggie and I, having decided the situation was beyond us, wrote a letter to Charlie Sands asking him to come up.
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