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Why didn't" burst out John Ashe, erect and furious. "At the end of two year," continued Mr. McClosky, still intent on the valise, "I allowed I'd get a diworce. Et about thet time, however, Providence sends a circus into thet town, and a feller ez rode three horses to onct. Hevin' allez a taste for athletic sports, she left town with this feller, leavin' me and Jinny behind.
Look at her well, gentlemen. I ask you, ain't she a splendid creature?" Colonel Carvel, in annoyance, started to move on. "Come Jinny," he said, "I had no business to bring you aver." But Virginia caught his arm. "Pa," she cried, "it's Mr. Benbow's Hester. Don't go, dear. Buy her for me You know that I always wanted her. Please!"
His skill as a sailor of small boats is largely a manifestation of characteristic caution, his precept being "Subpose big seas come one, one all right. Subpose come two, two look out!" In Life and In Death She was called "Little Jinny" to distinguish her from another of the blacks about the place a great, good-natured, giggling creature who laughs perpetually and grows ever fatter.
It was then that her aunt called out to her, with distressing shrillness, from the carriage: "Jinny, Jinny, how can you stand there talking to young men when our lives are in danger?" She glanced hurriedly at Stephen, who said gently; "I do not wish to delay you, Miss Carvel, if you are bent upon going." She wavered. His tone was not resentful, simply quiet.
What Jinny took for stepping-stones were in reality the remains of a submerged forest, and no doubt, if John could have discovered their whereabouts, would have afforded him a tolerably secure footing, but they were indistinguishable now beneath the brown, swirling waters. Oh! he would be drowned! he would be drowned!
He sent a message to the deserted Thatcher, faking errands in Cairo, and he took a room at the hotel where Jinny Jeffries now up the Nile had stayed. He spent a great deal of time evenings in the hotel garden, staring over the brick walls to the tops of distant palms beyond, and not infrequently he slipped out the garden's back door and wandered up and down the dark canyon of a lane.
The funny part is that Oliver is so wrapped up in this play that he doesn't seem to be able to get his mind off it, poor darling. Father was never that way about his sermons, was he?" "Your father never thought of himself or of his own interests enough, Jinny. If he ever had a fault, it was that. But I suppose he approaches perfection as nearly as a man ever did."
For Virginia was human, and one morning she went to her aunt's room to read this editorial from the newspaper: "For the relief of many palpitating hearts it may be well to state that we understand only two ladies are on the ten thousand dollar list." "Jinny," she cried, "how can you be so cruel as to read me that, when you know that I am in a state of frenzy now? How does that relieve me?
"Gizeh, Abusir, Sakkara, Dahsur and now here, if you look that's the Medun pyramid that tiny, sharp prick. If we had glasses...." "Yes; but why didn't you like the ball?" murmured Jinny the direct. "I did like the ball. Very much." "Then why didn't you stay?"
Give her my love and tell her I'll come down just as soon as I get Jinny settled. I've been so taken up getting the house ready that I haven't thought of another thing for three weeks." "When will Oliver's play be put on in New York?" asked Susan, turning back after they had parted. "In three weeks. He is going back again for the last rehearsals.
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